What is an object that someone made in the past called?
Artifact
100
Why did the Mound Builders build mounds?
Religious ceremonies, burial places, ceremonies, honoring
100
What is an activity done for a special purpose or event called
A ceremony
100
what is a culture with organized system of government, religion, and learned called
civilization
100
What is slavery?
Holding people against their will and taking away their freedom
200
What does migrate mean?
To move
200
What group first used the kayak?
Inuit
200
What happened to the Anasazi? Where are they now?
No one really knows (left from a drought, Pueblo could be descended from Anasazi)
200
What is an empire?
Group of lands and peoples ruled by one leader
200
How did the Aztecs create a huge empire?
by taking over other lands and people
300
What are two theories on how the first people came to North America
Over the Bering Strait land bridge or by boat
300
What group lived in the desert
Anasazi
300
How do we know that the Mound Builders traded with other people
The artifacts are from all over the country
300
Where were the Inca (in todays world)
Peru
300
What types of things did people have to give for tribute to the Aztecs?
gold, silver, stones, food, clothing, weapons, people
400
What does a climograph tell us?
Average temperature and average precipitation
400
What did the Anasazi first do, that no one else had done?
Used irrigation to water their crops.
400
Why were the Mound Builders able to build such huge structures
They were organized
400
Tell me 3 things the Maya did that was special.
Used the number 0, system of writing, calendar, studied, built pyramids
400
What accomplishment are the Inca known for?
Roads that linked their empire to their capital city and a fast communication system
500
Tell me about how the early people got food (3 ways) and why did that change each time
Hunters, hunter-gatherers, farmers
They stopped being just hunters because the large animals died out so they needed other food sources. Eventually they were able to settle in one place and grow their own food to be farmers.
500
How are the Mound Builders and Anasazi the same and different
Both: farmers, lived in permanent settlements, religious ceremonies
Different: Anasazi lived in desert, used irrigation
MB lived in forests, fertile soil, rivers
500
How did the Anasazi get the irrigation?
They dug ditches to carry water from streams to their crops
500
Why were the Maya able to do so many special things?
They created a surplus of food so they had more time to do other things
500
Using this climograph, what is the precipitation for August and the temperature for October?