Hunters and Farmers in the Americas
Early Mesoamerican Civilizations
Early Civilizations of the Andes
100

An ancient land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia into the Americas ...

Answer: Beringia.

100

An area extending from central Mexico to Honduras, where several of the ancient complex societies of the Americas developed ...

Answer: Mesoamerica.

100

A civilization that flourished on what is now the southern coast of Peru from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 ...

Answer: Nazca.

200

A cold period in which huge ice sheets spread outward from the polar regions, the last one of which lasted from about 1,600,000 to 10,000 B.C. ...

Answer: Ice Age.

200

The earliest known Mesoamerican civilization, which flourished around 1200 B.C. and influenced later societies throughout the region ...

Answer: Olmec.

200

A civilization that flourished on what is now the northern coast of Peru from A.D. 100 to 700 ...

Answer: Moche.

300

A cultivated cereal grain that bears its kernels on large ears – usually called corn in the United States ...

Answer: maize.

300

Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico ...

Answer: Monte Alban.

300

The first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 B.C. ...

Answer: Chavin.

400

Pertaining to a North American prehistoric culture, 10,000-9,000 B.C., characterized by a fluted stone projectile point for hunting ...

Answer: Clovis.

400

An early Mesoamerican civilization that was centered in the Oaxaca Valley of what is now Mexico ...

Answer: Zapotec.

400

Geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru ...

Answer: Nazca Lines.

500

Monte Verde – a Paleolithic archaeological site in S Chile

Answer: Monte Verde.

500

Archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in SE Mexico ...

Answer: La Venta.

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