The First Hunter-Gathers
The geographical feature that allowed humans to migrate from Asia to North America.
What is Beringia(The Bering Land Bridge)?
Scientist who study the tools and artifacts of people who lived long ago.
What are archaeologist?
The two rivers which the Hohokam settled in between.
What are the Salt and Gila Rivers?
These are two of the many groups of people know as the "Mound Builders."
Who are the Adena and Hopewell?
A person who gathers plants and hunted animals for food.
What was a hunter-gather?
The group that is considered the first to start a civilization in North America.
What are the Olmec?
During this period, the Maya peaked and developed most of its cities and culture.
What is the Classic Period?
A system of ditches that allowed the Hohokam to water their crops.
What is an irrigation(canal) system?
This group's village had many of round log houses that were surrounded by farms.
What is an Adena village?
The period of time when the Earth was colder, which made much of the seawater freeze into glaciers.
What is the Ice Age?
A group of people who have a shared history, language, culture, and way of life.
What is a civilization?
This person/group of people ruled the Mayan government and commanded its armies.
What are kings?
These people are known as the first "cliff dwellers." They built their homes along the cliffs.
Who were the Anasazi(Ancestral Pueblo)?
This is the area that the Adena and Hopewell lived in.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The main animal that the Ice Age hunters followed across Beringia.
What is the Wooly Mammoth?
This allowed hunter-gathers to settle into a geographical area and begin eating more maize, beans, and squash.
What is farming(crops)?
Elaborate carvings and inscriptions that the Mayans communicated with.
What are hieroglyphs?
This mixture of mud and straw dries into a hard clay. This is what the Ancestral Pueblo made their houses out of.
What is Adobe?
Archeologist believe the Hopewell and Adena benefited from this, as they both had items that could have only have been found from far away places.
What are trading networks?