Ancient Humans
Before farming, humans used this technique to find food and natural resources
This ancient civilization built their main city, Tenochtitlan, on Lake Texcoco in Central Mexico.
What are the Aztec?
This tribe was also known as the "people of the Longhouse"
What are the Iroquois?
This sailor led a voyage to the New World and is often credited with "discovering" the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This technology helps keep your North Star.
What is a compass?
This massive sheet of ice, miles long, helped ancient humans migrate from Asia to North America.
What are glaciers?
This process of record keeping, created by cords of string with knots tied in it, helped keep everything organized in Incan society.
What is quipu?
The Sioux tribe adapted to their environment in the Great Plains by hunting this animal for tools, clothing, and meat.
What is the buffalo?
Due to the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe lived in this period of feudalism and lack of advancement, also known as the Dark Ages.
What are the Middle Ages / Medieval times?
This trade network is named for the interactions between Europeans and the Native Americans.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This term is used to describe the process of farming.
What is agriculture?
In order to adapt to their environment, the Aztec built these "floating gardens" to help with farming.
What are chinampas?
These five tribes, the Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, and Onondaga, make up this collection of Northeastern Native Americans.
What is the Iroquois League?
This series of wars was carried out by the Christians in Europe against the Middle East to reclaim the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This technology made it possible to go on longer sailing journeys by showing a ship's latitude and longitude (position).
What is the astrolabe?
This is the process by which humans get used to their environment.
What is adaptation?
Thanks to their achievements in astronomy, the Mayan people created this to measure dates and times, which we still use today.
These tribes, living in the Southwest United States, used adobe or sundried brick to create homes in the desert.
What are the Puebloans?
This trade route helped bring goods from China and India to the Middle East and Europe.
What is The Silk Road?
This is the name for a piece of land taken by another country and used for resources, wealth, and to spread religion.
What is a colony?
Cities, government, religion, and social classes, are features that make up this level of human development.
What is civilization?
This civilization existed before the Mayans, though we know very little about their society and what happened to them.
What are the Olmec?
The Natchez tribe primarily used fishing to find food in order to adapt to this region of the United States.
What is the southeast?
This European power was the first to explore outside of Europe.
What is Portugal?
This was the region first landed on by European explorers in the Americas, mistakenly named for another part of the world.