Myths
This is the myth perpetuated by some European observations and records regarding the size of the human population in the Americas before the arrival of the Spanish and other European explorers and colonizers.
What is that the population was very small.
This is the name of the land area that humans crossed 20,000 years ago that connects present day Russia and Alaska.
What was Beringia?
This indigenous civilization were great conquerors and their main city was Tenochtitlan, and they were also called the Mexica people.
Who were the Aztecs?
Archaeologists and historians believe the various indigenous people of the Americas had up to this many different languages at the height of their populations, many of which that were derived from one another.
What is 2000 languages?
This civilization of present day Northern Mexico all the way north to the Great Lakes (present day) Illinois had trade networks, cities, religious mounds that have been excavated.
Who were the Cahokia
This myth stated that indigenous people of the Americas did not have any permanent housing or civilization, and "we all" living and surviving as this.
What are hunter gatherers?
Archaeologists and historians have come to agree that the earliest human migrations in the Americas happened both by land as well as by this method along the Pacific coasts of North, Central and South America.
What is by boats (powered by paddles), aka canoes?
This civilization and empire existed in western South America, had a road system, terraced farming and suspension bridges.
Who were the Incas?
These were the homes built from animal skins and typical of plains indigenous people.
What are tipis?
This was the location of the Inuit indigenous people, whose housing were igloos during their winter.
What are Alaska and Canada?
This is the reason the Americas are not a new world.
What is people have lived in the Americas for over 20,000 years?
By 1200 these were the regions inhabited in the Americas by indigenous peoples.
What are all of the regions?
This is one example of how indigenous civilizations created irrigation systems for agriculture.
What are causeways, floating gardens, and dikes?
This staple crop (there was even a god to it) was essential to indigenous people of Mesoamerica.
What is maize/corn?
This was the location of the Pueblo Indigenous civilization.
What are the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico?
The word indigenous means this.
What is native?
This is the direction historians believe humans migrated to the Americas.
What is northwest to south and east?
This was the name given to the Caribbean Islands by Columbus.
What are the West Indies?
Who are the Woodland Indians?
This was the location of the Taino and Carib indigenous civilizations.
What is the Caribbean?
Indigenous people had creation stories, just as all other civilizations, which were myths about how they came to inhabit the Earth, which disproves this myth.
What is indigenous peoples did not have organized religions or belief systems?
These are still being excavated in Mayan ruins, and they are similar to those also built in Egypt.
What are pyramids?
These were two things moved on the ancient Inca road.
What are armies, trade products, news and food?
This was one of the few domesticated animals utilized for transportation and agriculture by indigenous people of the Americas before Europeans arrived.
What are llamas?
These were the indigenous peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula and northern Central America.
Who were the Maya?