Tribes of New Mexico
This was the site of the Ancestral Puebloan that traded items as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
Chaco Canyon
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a dice-roll contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
Which man's voyage to the Americas began the Columbian Exchange?
Christopher Columbus
True or False: The Olmec, Maya, and Aztec had similar architectural styles.
True
Cortes interacted with the _____ empire in Mesoamerica. This empire's capital was called Tenochtitlan.
Aztec
Which conquistador led to the fall of the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
Term once used for the Ancestral Pueblo people meaning "ancient enemy" in Navajo has been replaced because it is offensive to modern Pueblo people.
Anasazi
This was like trade between Europe and the Americas and started after Christopher Columbus' voyages.
DAILY DOUBLE! (400 points)
Columbian Exchange
DAILY DOUBLE! (400 points)
True or False: Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations all shared the same writing system.
False
This man's actions led to the fall of the Aztec Empire which was ruled by Montezuma II.
Hernan Cortés
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a rock-paper-scissors contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
Around ____ miles of roads connected Chaco Canyon to other areas.
400
This was the name for Navajo houses.
Hogans
What weapons did the Spanish Conquistadors use against Indigenous People?
Guns / Firearms
or Disease
Name two natural resources that Mesoamerican civilizations made use of:
waterways, jungles, coatlines, fertile soil, minerals
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a staring contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
What were Spanish people called who came to the Americas looking to explore new lands and conquer Indigenous peoples?
Conquistadors
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a card-draw contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
This tribe of New Mexico were wickiup and teepee dwellers.
Apache
This relies on rainfall and snow collected in clumps of dead plants to pool water and runoff to be used to water crops.
Dry Farming
The Columbian Exchange was the trade of which three things?
Goods, Animals, Diseases
(would also accept plants, animals, diseases)
CHALLENGE FOR BONUS QUESTION: Pick one person from your group and one person from another group. You will have a rock-paper-scissors contest. The winner gets a bonus question for their group.
Name the three civilizations that lived in Mesoamerica in chronological order (oldest to newest):
Olmec, Maya, Aztec
What were the three G's?
God, Gold, Glory
What language do the Navajo and Apache both speak?
Athabaskan (or Dine)
This is the largest tribe in New Mexico. Call themselved Diné.
Navajo
This was a Spanish policy granting land and its inhabitants to Spanish soldiers/colonists
encomienda system
In Mesoamerica, some tribes used agriculture techniques like the floating gardens called ______.
Chinampas
This man was the Aztec ruler who Cortez conquered.
Montezuma II / Moctezuma II
Name the three tribes which are descended from the Ancestral Puebloans:
Zuni, Acoma, Laguna