Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
100
the study of ancient peoples
What is archaelogy?
100
Tinochtitlan
What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?
100
this discovery turned the nomads into farmers
What is maize?
100
the Mayans created a 365 day calendar using this
What is astronomy?
100
these people built huge burial mounds in the Ohio Valley
What is Hopewell?
200
a system of record keeping with string
What is quipus?
200
great stone community dwellings built by the Anasazi
What are pueblos?
200
the earliest Americans probably crossed the land bridge for this reason
What is following game to hunt?
200
civilizations who organized their societies around religion
What is the Maya and Aztec
200
the Inuit wore clothing made of this
What is sealskin?
300
sun-dried mud brick
What is adobe?
300
the emperor of the Inca was a descendant of this
What is the sun god?
300
farming allowed early Americans to settle and form these
What are communities?
300
the largest early American civilization
What is Inca?
300
these people chose men to serve on the league council, owned their own land, and planted and harvested crops
Who are the Iroquois women?
400
Machu Picchu
What was the religious center of the Inca?
400
the Inca built 10,000 miles of these over mountains, deserts, and jungles
Who are stone paved roads and rope bridges
400
early Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia to this present day location
What is Alaska?
400
the civilization which grew into a military empire
What is Aztec?
400
this was the main food source of the people of the northwest coast
What is salmon?
500
government that links different groups together and works for peace
What is a federation?
500
The land bridge crossed by the earliest native americans
What is Beringia?
500
a method scientists use to find out how old artifacts are
What is carbon dating?
500
the Inca believed the sun god's were pleased by this
What is gold?
500
this culture used teepees
Who are the people of the Plains
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