The Earliest Americans
Native American Cultures
Miscellaneous
Europe Before Transatlantic Travel
Miscellaneous
100

The earliest Americans crossed this bridge

What is the Bering Land Bridge

100
Group of people that lived in the 4 corners region and adapted to their region by growing maize
Who are the Anasazi
100

Developed the first known civilization around 1200 BC in Mesoamerica

The Olmec

100
Developed by the Greeks, it is a form of government which people rule themselves
What is Democracy
100

Roman Catholic Church fought a series of religious wars against Muslims in Southwest Asia to gain control of the Holy Land.

The Crusades

200

The movement of people or animals from one region to another

What is migration

200
An above ground house made of a heavy clay called adobe
What is a pueblo
200

The first people to arrive in North America

Paleo-Indians

200
3 of the most famous Greek Philosophers
Who is Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates
200

When the Roman Republic came to an end, who named himself dictator for life?

Julius Caesar

300

Another Name for Corn

Maize

300
Cone shaped shelters
What is a teepee
300

Ancestor or animal spirit carvings, on tall, wooden poles

Totem Poles

300

Period of "Rebirth" of ideas that began in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Renaissance

300

People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants

Hunter-gatherers

400
A group's set of common values and traditions, including language, government, and family relationships
What is Culture
400
Confederation, or alliance that was established by the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca Indians to try and keep peace between Indian tribes
What is the Iroquois League
400

What allowed the earliest people in North and South America to settle in villages and form more complex societies

Agriculture / Farming

400
A disease that spread through Europe killing 25 million people
What is the Black Death
400

  • Began as a small tribe in the Andes Mountains in South America

  • Capital city was Cuzco.

  • By the 1500s, the empire stretched along much of the western South American coast.

  • Known for a strong central government, their architecture, and their art

Inca

500

  • Fierce Warriors

  • Conquered central Mexico

  • Founded capital city, Tenochtitlán, in AD 1325

Aztec

500
Tracing ancestry through their mothers, not their fathers
What is matrilineal
500

Name 3 of the 5 tribes making up the League of the Iroquois.

Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca tribes

500
Businesses in which a group of people invest together
What is a joint-stock company
500

This civilization ended around AD 900 but we don’t know why.

Maya

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