First Arrivals
Aztecs
Native American cultures
Native American Cultures
Government & Religion
100

What was responsible for the lower ocean levels 10,000-100,000 years ago?

glaciers

100

What animal did the Aztec see perched on a cactus, as a sign that they should build their city in that location?

What is an eagle

100

What animal was a major resource for Native Americans in the Great Plains?

What is the buffalo?

100
Managed the family and home life and gathered, grew, and prepared food
What is the role of Native American women?
100
Native Americans believed that these two things had spirtits
What were the earth and animals?
200

What major development/skill allowed some groups to settle in one place?

farming/agriculture

200

What was Tenochtitlán?

what is The massive capital city of the Aztecs

200
the system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods
What is an economy?
200
hunted and did some farm chores
What was the role of Native American men?
200
Small groups often combined with other groups to form nations. When several nations join forces it is called this
What is a league?
300

What was the main subsistence method for the first people who arrived in the Americas?

What is hunting?

(prehistoric mammals)

300

In most cases, Aztecs sacrificed which group of people?

  1. Women

  2. Children

  3. Prisoners from other tribes

  4. The elderly

4.) Prisoners

300
Because of this, Native Americans could settle in one place for good. They no longer needed to migrate to find food.
What is farming? or agriculture?
300
protected the village and went on trade missions
What was the role of Native American men?
300
The best known league of 5 nations
What was the League of the Iroquois?
400

The land bridge that once connected Siberia and Alaska is now what body of water?

What is the Bering Strait

400

Which of the following was the Aztec language?

  1. Aztecan

  2. Nahuatl

  3. Xochimilco

  4. Spanish

2.)  Nahuatl

400
the culture region where the Powhatan lived
What is the Southeast?
400
Helped mothers and trained for adulthood through activities and games
Who were the Native American children?
400
discussed problems and made decisions for the league while trying to keep the peace among groups
What was the role of men in the League of Iroquois?
500

Some scientists disagree with the land-bridge theory.  What is an alternative theory that explains how humans arrived in the Americas?



 what is the coastal-route theory?

500

As the population of Tenochtitlán grew, Aztec farmers had to grow more food.  Where did they do this?  (You can still visit these gardens at Xochimilco).

They grew rafts and grew crops floating on the water.

500
Built canoes and tools to catch fish in the waters that surrounded their homeland
Who are the Powhatan?
500
Believed to be connected to the spirit world
Who are Native American children?
500
Included leaders from all five groups and they made decisions for the entire group
What was the council of the League of the Iroquois?
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