Ancient People of the North America during the last Ice Age
Paleo-Indians
This Group lived in Modern Day New York and were known as the people of the long house.
This group was know for their accurate calendars, large pyramids, ball courts and for abandoning their cities on the Yucatan Peninsula prior to Europeans arriving in the Americas
Maya
Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa and Europe and 6 or the 7 Continents, excluding.
Australia
A first hand account of a event or time in history told by someone who witnessed it.
Primary Source
People probably came to North America because they were doing this.
Following Animal Herds
This group lived in the southwest of the United States and were know for both they multi story mud brick homes and their cliff side dwellings, and are named after the Spanish word for home
Pueblo
The Aztec were famous as a warrior civilization that often attacked its neighbors in order to capture people for...
Human Sacrifice
A map or globe uses these lines to help locate where you are on it, and is used with GPS today.
Longitude and Latitude
A newspaper is an example of what type of source.
Secondary
Most of North America was covered in these up till the end of the last Ice Age, some a mile thick.
Ice Sheets or Glaciers
This group lived mostly off of the nearby sea, fishing and hunting sea mammals, and built large totem poles to honor their gods
People of the Pacific North West
Located in the Andes Mountains, this group built many roads, deformed their skulls, had a large supply of gold and silver and saw their emperor as a god.
Inca
This part of a Map tells you what all the symbols on it stand for.
The Key or Legend
What is the first thing you should look for when looking at a document in a history class.
The Source
Large Animals that roamed North America and were possibly hunted to extinction at the end of the last Ice Age.
Megafauna
This group hunted buffalo and followed the herds around, using mobile homes called teepees and later on became reliant on the horse after it was introduced by Europeans
People of the Great Plains
Many of these large civilization of south and Central America were the Pioneers in cultivating crops through selective breeding. Some of the key crops they breed were ...
Corn, Squash, Beans, Potato, Chocolate
This Landform has water on three sides of it, with Florida being a prime example
A Peninsula
A person who favors one side or a certain point of view is a example of
Bias
This "Bridge" connected Asia to Alaska and allowed animals and people to travel between the two during the last Ice Age, due to lower sea levels.
Bering Land Bridge
The Inuit were located in what part of North America
Alaska and the artic circle
The Area of Modern day Southern Mexico and Central America are also known by this name, a sister region to Mesopotamia.
Mesoamerica
When looking at a map, what do you use to measure distance
the scale
When studying the events of the Revolutionary war, you collect all your data from retellings and journals of Americans that were in the war, many being primary sources. Why might your research be Bias?
You only took information from the American Side and not the British.