This is the reason why early humans migrated to the Americas.
What is to hunt for survival?
100
This is an activity done for a special purpose or event, such as a birth, wedding, or a death.
What is a ceremony?
100
This means to do only one certain kind of job. Some Maya began to do this when there became a surplus of food.
What is specialize?
100
This word means to move from one area to another. Animals and early humans both did this.
What is migrate?
100
How did Aztecs gain the land that they inhabited from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans?
What is by conquering other people in battle and taking their land.
200
Early humans migrated from Siberia and crossed over this on their way to the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait?
200
This is one purpose of the mounds built by the Mound Builders.
What is they were burial places for important chiefs?
200
Mayan kings were buried in these.
What are pyramids?
200
This word means a culture with organized systems of government, religion, and learning.
What is civilization?
200
Causeways were needed to reach the city of Tenochtitlan because of this.
What is the city was surrounded by water?
300
These scientists study the artifacts from people who lived long ago and draw conclusions from them.
Who are archaeologists?
300
This is how the Anasazi became successful farmers in the desert.
What is they dig ditches to carry water from streams to their crops?
300
Most of the Mayan civilizations were built in what is now this country.
What is Mexico?
300
Explain the Inca communication system.
What are thousands of miles of roads linking the capital to to all parts of the empire?
300
Aztecs were successful farmers because they used this method of farming in which small, man-made islands were used for growing crops.
What are floating gardens?
400
This is how early humans got tools.
What is they made tools by hand from animal bones and stones?
400
This is a high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it. The Anasazi built on these landforms.
What is a mesa?
400
Mayans are famous in mathematics because they were among the first people to do this.
What is use the number zero?
400
This word means a group of lands and people ruled by one leader.
What is empire?
400
According to legend, the Aztecs settled in their location because a god told them to travel until they saw this animal sitting on a cactus with a snake in its mouth.
What is an eagle?
500
This is how long ago the Ice age occured.
What is around 20,000 years ago?
500
This is the name of a Pueblo woman mentioned in your book who is famous for making pottery.
What is Nampeyo?
500
Mayan civilization came to its end around this year.
What is the year 900?
500
This was the capital of the Inca empire, and is now in modern day Peru.
What is Cuzco?
500
One of the main gods, Huitzilopochti, was the god of this.