Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Grab Bag
Iroquois
Aztec, Inca, Maya
100
A person who studies artifacts to learn about a civilization
Who is an archeologist?
100
An object made by humans and used by archeologists to learn about past human cultures.
What is an artifact?
100
Some examples of culture
What are food, clothing, celebrations, etc.? (any acceptable answers)
100
The enemy of the Iroquois.
Who are the Algonquins?
100
Tenochtitlan.
What is the capital of the Aztec Empire?
200
A system of writing that uses pictures to represent words and ideas
What are hieroglyphics?
200
A Native American home built of wood poles and bark.
What is a longhouse?
200
Where the Incan civilization developed
What is present day Peru? or What is along the western coast of South America?
200
The type of house the Iroquois lived in
What is a longhouse?
200
Priests were the highest social class in this society.
Who are the Maya?
300
A group of Native American people sharing the same questions, languages, and rituals.
What is a tribe?
300
An advanced culture.
What is a civilization?
300
A diary written by Christopher Columbus is this type of source
What is a primary source?
300
Included the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and later the Tuscarora.
What is the League of Iroquois?
300
Tikal and Copan
What are two major cities of the Maya?
400
The entire way of life developed by a people.
What is culture?
400
An advanced civilization with a strong, formal government and powerful army.
What is an empire?
400
The lowest social class in all three Pre-Columbian civilizations.
What are slaves?
400
How many nations had to agree before the League of Iroquois council could take action.
What is all of them? (5, then 6)
400
The two civilizations that developed in the region of Mexico.
What are the Maya and the Aztec?
500
A group of related families.
What is a clan?
500
A person who studies primary and secondary sources to learn about the past.
What is an historian?
500
The Inca believed that the emperor was a descent of this
What is the sun god?
500
How often the council for the League of Iroquois met.
What is once a year?
500
Cuzco
What is the capital city of the Inca?
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