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What was one theory of how people arrived in the America's?
-Land Bridge
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How did the Mayan civilization decline?
-They stopped building cities and the Spanish took over.
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What did Chavin people do?
-They built a huge temple complex -Their art and religion influenced later people in Peru
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What did the Incan farmers expand?
-step terraces built by earlier Andean people
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What did people later call the Hohokam tribe?
-Vanished ones
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What were some neolithic crops?
-Beans, Sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash, maize.
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What was the Aztec sign that they needed to see in order to build the capital?
-An eagle holding a snake in its beak perching atop
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What did Moche farmers do?
-They developed methods for fertilizing soil and used canals to irrigate land.
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What were the leaders of each Incan leader called, and what did they do?
-They were called Ayllu -They carried out government orders.
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What did the Spanish later call the Ancestral Puebloans free sending villages.
-Pueblos
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What was the name of the earliest American civilization?
-Olmecs
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What is a chinampus?
-Artificial islands made of mud piled atop reed mats
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What did the Nazca people do in the desert?
-They etched geoglyphs which researches think had a spiritual meaning.
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What important medical practice did the Incan's develop?
-Surgery on the human skull.
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What were some examples of the Northeastern earth works?
-Large burial mounds, platforms for temples, or defensive walls
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What is one achievment of the Olmecs?
calender, or a type of hieroglyphic writing
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In the Aztec empire, what did the priests do?
-Preformed rituals to please the gods.
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Where did the city of Tia huanaco develop?
-On the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia.
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What did the Incan people offer to the gods?
-Food, clothing, and drink
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How many people did the Cahokia house?
-20,000
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What was the majority of the Mayan people's job?
-They were farmers
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What did the Aztec's had that the Mayan's had also?
-A 260- day ritual calender and a 365- day solar calender
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What is Quipu? WHat was it used for?
-A collection of colored strings that were knotted in different ways to represent various numbers. -Used for record keeping
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Who is the chief among the gods?
-Inti, the sun god
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What is the Iroquois League?
-An alliance of 5 iroquois groups- the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca-
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