Vocabulary
What was Beringia?
What was a land bridge that connected the Americas to Asia
What was the most important crop of the early farmers in the Americas?
What was maize
Villages of large, apartment-style compounds made of stone and adobe, or sunbaked clay were called what?
What were pueblos
What did the Maya believe would be maintained by playing a ball game?
What was the cycles of the sun and the moon and bring life giving rains.
What was ayllu?
What was extended family
What huge animal did hunters follow across the land bridge to North America?
What was the Mammoth
Who were Mesoamerica’s first known civilization builders?
Who were the Olmec
A natural object with which an individual or identifies itself was called what?
What is a totem
What did the Maya base their calendar on?
What was a careful observation of the planets
What was mita?
What was labor tribute
An area that stretched south from central Mexico to northern Honduras was called what?
What was Mesoamerica
Where did South America’s first civilizations emerge?
What was Peru
What was the last Mound Builder culture?
What was the Mississippian
What kind of people were the Toltecs?
Who were extremely warlike whose empire was built on conquest
What Inca ruler was defeated by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro?
Who was Atahualpa
A ceremony in which families displayed their rank and prosperity was called what?
What was the potlatch
Who developed the most advanced writing system in the world?
The Maya
What was Teotihuacan’s most valuable trade item? What was it used for?
What was Obsidian and for making razor-sharp weapons
What Aztec ruler built the city of Tenochtitlan?
Who was Montezuma I
What was the Popol Vuh?
What was a book that recounts the Highland Maya’s version of the story of creation
An underwater cave that Mayas threw their human sacrifices in to appease the gods was called what?
What was a cenote
What Aztec ruler was defeated by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes?
Who was Montezuma II
What was quipu?
What was a set of knotted strings that could be used to record data
What Incan king led the Inca to conquer all of Peru?
Who was Pachacuti
What are the Nazca Lines? Where are they located?
What are more than 1,000 drawings of animals, plants, humans, and geometric shapes. Located on the plains of southeastern Peru