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Vocabulary
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100
Americans most likely used this to migrate to America
What is the land bridge?
100
Mound Builders built mounds for this
What is to bury chiefs and other important people?
100
The way the Aztecs got more land
What is by creating floating gardens, carving terraces, and developing irrigation?
100
One who studies artifacts of people
Who is an archaeologist?
100
Culture with organized system of government, religion, and learning
What is civilization?
200
The place most early people lived during the Ice Age
What is near their food?
200
The first people to use irrigation
Who are the Anasazi?
200
The area in which the Maya were successful
What is farming?
200
A high, flat landform
What is mesa?
200
This happened after large animals died out
What is people became hunters and gatherers?
300
The reason people came to America
What is to follow the large animals?
300
These people traveled from Asia to North America 2,500 years ago and stayed near the Arctic Ocean
Who are the Inuit?
300
The result of the Mayan food surplus
What is specialization?
300
Thick sheets of ice
What is glacier?
300
The effect of agriculture on people
What is it allowed them to settle in one place?
400
How early Americans get food during the Ice Age
What is by hunting?
400
How the Anasazi became successful farmers in the desert
What is by digging ditches to carry water from streams to their crops?
400
The result of the Mayans study of the stars and planets
What is the creation of an accurate calendar?
400
The movement of people to another land
What is migrate?
400
The Mounder Builder's mounds tell us this about their culture
What is that they were highly organized?
500
The way of life of the first Americans centered on this
What is hunting?
500
The period of time during which glaciers covered the Earth
What is the Ice Age?
500
The way that the Aztecs extended their borders
What is by conquering other lands?
500
An object that someone made in the past
What is an artifact?
500
Choose one of these groups: Mound Builders, Anasazi, Inuit, Maya, Inca, or Aztec. Describe their culture and civilization.
Answers Vary: Did you include information about when they lived, where they lived, what they ate, what houses they lived in, etc.?
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