Vocabulary
an arrangement in which people have different ranks or levels of importance
What is Hierarchy?
This bridge was believed to connect Siberia to Alaska 5,000-40,000 years ago.
What is the Bering Strait?
The start of the Maya Empire was during this year.
What is 250 CE?
The Aztec Empire was started around this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
The name of the emperor who went to war and captured a lot of land.
Who is Pachacuti?
This city was the largest founded city located in Illinois.
What is Cahokia?
Name three of the four states that the Ancestral Pueblo people settled in.
What are New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona?
The Haudenosaunee are also known by this name.
What are the Iroquois?
the raising of crops and animals
What is agriculture?
Name three animals that the Northwest Tribes hunted.
What are seals, whales, salmon, herring, halibut?
The Maya people were first to develop this using the stars, sun, and moon.
What is a calendar?
This city became the largest in the world during this time.
What is Tenochtitlán?
The ancient city that sits on top of the Andes Mountains is known as ________.
What is Machu Picchu?
This is the largest mound of one hundred twenty in the area.
What is Monks Mound?
Ancestral Pueblo people that lived in canyons were called this.
What are cliff dwellers.
This elder preached for peace after many wars between the nations.
Who is the Peacemaker or Deganawida?
the system of buying, selling, making things, and managing money in a place
What is Economy?
These Northwest People created houses that were up to 100 feet long that held several families.
What are the Kwakiutl?
The Mayan written language was called this.
What is Hieroglyphics?
These ceremonies were performed to keep the gods happy.
What are human and animal sacrifices?
The Inca people used this written language to record information using knots and colors.
What is Quipu?
This metal was plentiful in the Great Lakes and was used in the Mississippian arts and crafts.
What is copper?
The Ancestral Pueblo people named their shelters this.
What are pueblos?
The Haudenosaunee's written language using shell beads to record historical events and tell stories.
What is Wampum?
a group of countries or states that have the same ruler
What is an Empire?
The Arctic people had to use these items for tools.
What are stone, bone, ivory, antlers?
The four regions the Maya people settle in are now known as these countries.
What is Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize
What are tools, cotton, clothing, and baskets
Name the three jobs of men in the Inca Empire.
What are military members, farmers, and builders.
During this time, the Mississippian started to decline due to suspected disease or overfarming.
What is the 1400s?
The cliff homes provided shelter from these elements.
What are bad weather and heavy winds?
1. Opening in the roof for smoke to escape from fires that could be covered during bad weather.
2. Food hung from high ceilings
3. Shelves for storage
4. Sheltered dozens of families
5. Stored firewood for cooking, warmth and light.
6. Slept, sat, and worked on benches that were lined with fur and woven mats.
7. Compartments for separate family rooms.
someone who is skilled at working with their hands at a particular craft
What is an Artisan?
Early Americans were known to use all parts of an animal. Name what each part of an animal was used for. (4)
What is...
Meat= food
Hide= clothes and shelter
Hair=rope
Horns= dishes and spoons
Tissue= bows and arrows
The fall of the Maya Empire left the cities abandoned. Name two theories of what happened to the Maya people.
What is:
1. The population was too large, leaving the land scarce of resoures.
2. The Maya Empire was decimated by war
3.There was a natural disaster or drought.
In the Aztec Empire there was a hierarchy that described the different levels of power. Name the 5 different levels of power.
What is..
1. Emperor was main ruler who was believed to be descendant of gods
2. Several semi-independent territories, each ruled by local lord
3. Nobles (government, military leaders, and priests)
4. commoners(farmers, artisans, and merchants),
5. enslaved people (captured from rival tribes during war)
Describe two building structures that were constructed by the Inca men.
What are...
1) Built temples out of stone
2) Created roads from Colombia to southern Chile
3) Built Bridges connecting mountains
The information researchers used to learn about these people were due to:
A) Written Language
B) Artifacts
C) Storytelling
D) A calendar
What is B. Artifacts?
This national park is home to Ancestral Pueblo cliff shelters.
What is Mesa Verde National Park?
Name the six nations that made up the Haudenosaunee group.
What are
1. the Seneca
2. The Onondaga
3. The Oneida
4. The Cayuga
5. The Mohawk
6. The Tuscarora