Vocabulary
Ice Age
Long period of extreme cold on Earth
What is one way it is believed people traveled from Asia to America?
People walked across a land bridge
Why did the Mound Builders build mounds?
Burial places for important cheifs and moree
What were the Maya very successful at?
Farming
Why did people move from Asia to the Americas?
Hunters followed animals
Migrate
Movement of people to another land
Where did people live in during the Ice Age?
Wherever food was found.
What were the Anasazi known as?
Cliff dwellers
What resulted from the Mayan food surplus?
They began to specialize
What did we become due to Ice Age animals dying out?
Hunter-gatherers
Agriculture
the science and practice of growing crops
How did Early Americans get food during the Ice Age?
They hunted animals
Who traveled from Asia to America and stayed near the Atlantic Ocean?
The Inuit
How did the Aztecs extended, or grow, their borders?
They conquered other peoples in the Valley of Mexico
What did the Inuit hunt and build to live in?
Surplus
What were early people able to do once they stopped only hunting animals?
They settled in one place
How were the Anasazi able to farm in the desert?
They dug ditches to carry water from streams to their crops.
Because they studied the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the Maya were able to create an extremely accurate...
An extremely accurate calendar
What did the Kings of the early civilizations drink? (music video)
Cacao bean hot chocolate
Specialize
Having one kind of job
What new food sources did Early people have to find and why?
The large animals died as the Earth warmed so people fished, hunted smaller animals, and gathered wild plants like grains, berries, and nuts.
What did the Inuit develop?
What did the Aztecs create and develop to help with farming?
They created floating gardens and developed irrigation systems. They also cared terraces into hillsides
Name 2 differences and 2 similarities between the Mound Builders and the Anasazi.
They were both farmers, had permanent settlements, and had similar religions. The Anasazi lived in the desert and were the first to use irrigation. The Mound Builders lived near forests and rivers, had fertile soil and were hunter gatherers.