This is the peninsula off the east coast of Mexico where the Mayans lived.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
100
Large, enduring (long lasting) cultures are sometimes referred to as this.
What is a civilization?
100
This country was the richest and most powerful in all of Europe at the beginning of European colonization era.
What is Spain?
100
Currently referred to as Mexico, Central and South America.
What geographic areas were referred to as Meso- America?
100
This American war was nearing its end when the movie Dances with Wolves takes place.
What was the Civil War?
200
These were the 3 major parts of the Mayan Calendar.
What are the Haab, the Tzolkin and the Long Count?
200
This was the term used by Indigenous Shell Indians that meant "shell mound."
What was a 'midden'?
200
This is what gave the Spanish explorers a huge advantage in COMING UP WITH A PLAN to conquer the indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations.
What was writing?
200
This was the tribal name of the people who lived in the South Dakota area of the north mid-western part of America (featured in the movie Dances with Wolves).
Who were the Sioux?
200
This was the name of the Sioux holy man whom John Dunbar liked right away and referred to as the quiet one.
Who was 'Kicking Bird'?
300
This is the meaning of the Mayan Law of Nature "As above; so Below."
What happens in the heavens (planets, stars, galaxies) guides what happens below, on the earth.
300
This means to adapt something (especially plants and animals) for the benefit or human usage?
What is domestication?
300
This was the name of the Spanish Conquistador who led the expedition and conquered 700,000 Inca.
Who was Pizarro?
300
This was the name of the emperor of the Inca of Peru on the northwest Andes mountain coast of South America.
Who was Attahualpa?
300
This is the story behind how Stands With A Fist got her name.
What is being bullied due to jealousy by the other Sioux women, or hitting them to prove her stance?
400
This was the name given to the FIRST cycle AND THE LAST cycles of the 9 cycle Long Count Calendar.
What is Cellular and Universal?
400
This was one of the earliest known systems of writing established in Sumer (around 4000 BCE).
What is cuneiform?
400
The Cradle of Civilization (fertile Crescent) was located in the area of the world NOW known as this.
What is the Middle East?
400
This early Mesoamerican civilization lived in the north and central parts of Mexico and their leader was Montezuma.
Who were the Aztec?
400
This is what Wind In His Hair yelled at John Dunbar when he first rode his horse to the army fort with warpaint on.
What is, "I am Wind In His Hair and I am not afraid of you!"
500
This is the name of the cycle of the Long Count Calendar when humans began to appear on the earth.
What is the Tribal cycle?
500
This was the Hindi (from India) cycle system that was similar to the Mayan Long Count Calendar in its predictions of the ages.
What are the Yuga Cycles?
500
These are the names of 3 famous Spanish Conquistadors.
Who are Pizarro, Cortez, DeSoto, Narvez, Ponce de Leon?
only need to name 3
500
This south eastern American territory was virtually uninhabited for nearly 200 years after the Natives were killed off by disease and/or captured (between approx 1580-1780)
What is the area currently known as Florida?
500
Who found and returned Dances With Wolves' journal and returned it to him when he and Stands With A Fist left the Sioux ?