Terrain
How many miles does the Americas stretch from Greenland, in North America, to Cape Horn, In South America?
More than 9,000 miles
10,500 B.C.
What are the great wooden carvings of people and beasts that many northwestern groups known for creating?
Totem poles
What was the most important food grown in the highlands of Peru?
The potato
What was the earliest culture that emerged in Mexico?
The Olmec civilization
What are the two names given for the jagged mountains near the western coast of the Americas?
The Rocky Mountains (North America)
The Andes (South America)
What is the estimated range for when historians believe early peoples migrated from Asia to the Americas?
Between 35,000 and 8,000 years ago
Between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River
Where did the earliest known farming in the Americas begin?
Mexico
Who were perhaps the most advances of the people in the Americas?
The Maya
How many years ago did a massive climate change happen, leading to glaciers melting and covering the land bridge?
Around 11,000 years ago
What is the name of the narrow strip of water that is separating Alaska from Siberia?
The Bering Strait
Where is the Eastern Woodlands located? Give the location from North and South and from East and West.
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (N-S)
Atlantic to the Mississippi River (E-W)
Why did farming develop more slowly in the Americas, compared to other parts of the world?
Native American farmers never developed the plow
Because the Inca never developed a formal writing system, how did the keep records?
Quipu, a series of knots on parallel strings
Humans and animals lived in the underworld and discovered a hole that led to Earth
What is the name of the land bridge, that was created during the last ice age, which provided the means for Asians to move into the Americas?
Beringia
How did the Hohokam farmers grow food in the arid region of the southwestern portion of North America?
They built extensive irrigation networks
Why did many hunter-gatherer tribes begin relying more on plants as a food source after the end of the last ice age?
Many large animals became extinct
What lake the the Aztec settle on? What was the name of their main city?
Lake Texcoco
Tenochtitlan
What are the two great river systems in the Americas?
*Bonus* What is the longest river system in the world?
The Mississippi River and the Amazon River
*Bonus* The Nile River
It was trapped in glaciers
What objects have been found at earthen mound sites in the Eastern Woodlands to give evidence of widespread trade across the North American continent?
Grizzly bear teeth from the Rocky Mountains
Shark teeth from the Gulf Coast
What is subsistence farming?
Raising just enough crops for survival
Who is the feather serpent god, that was from the Toltec and spread through the Mesoamerican civilizations?
Quetzalcoatl