Vocabulary
What is a long period without rain?
What is a drought?
Why did early people migrate from Asia to the Americas?
They followed their food source (animals).
What is another name for the Anasazi?
Cliff Dwellers
What was developed because of the Mayan study of the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets?
a calendar
What do you call the place where the Anasazi lived which today contains the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico?
Four Corners
What word means to move to a different place?
What is migrate?
How did early Americans get food during the Ice Age?
They hunted animals.
How do archaeologists know that the Mound Builders were a well-organized culture?
They built enormous structures.
They traded.
Why were the Mayans able to specialize?
because they grew a surplus of food
What is the name of the body of water that at one time was a land bridge for early people to cross to the Americas?
Bering Strait
What is an object made in the past?
What is an artifact?
Name two theories about how early people got from Asia to the Americas.
1. by boat
2. walking across the land bridge
Which culture settled near the Arctic Ocean?
Inuit
Which culture was known for its system of roads?
Inca
What is the name of the place where you can see a 100-foot mound?
Cahokia
What is the name of a person who studies artifacts of people who lived long ago?
What is an archaeologist?
What did early people do for food at first after the Ice Age ended?
They became hunter-gatherers.
How were the Anasazi able to successfully farm in the desert?
They dug ditches and brought water to their crops (irrigation).
What did the Aztecs do to get more land for farming? Name 2 things.
1. floating gardens
2. terrace farming
3. irrigation systems
What is the name of the mountain range where the Incan empire was located?
Andes Mountains
What is a culture with organized systems of government, religion, and learning?
What is a civilization?
How did agriculture (farming) change the way of life of early people after the Ice Age?
They could settle in one place.
Why did the Mound Builders build mounds? Give 2 answers.
1. burial place for chiefs
2. ceremonies
3. to honor animal spirits
How did the Aztec empire get so big that it stretched from the Atlantic to Pacific?
They conquered other groups of people.
What is the name of the capital city of the Aztecs, which today is Mexico City?
Tenochtitlan