Vocabulary
People who move from place to place looking for food.
What is Nomadic?
Land Bridge that connected Asia to North America.
What is Beringia?
Built stone head monuments and drainage systems.
What are the Olmec?
A Tum-tum.
What is a waterfall?
Practice of supplying crops with water in a dry area.
What is irrigation?
Several periods of extreme cold.
What is an ice age?
Was a theocracy with a 365-day calendar.
What is the Maya?
A large city of natives with a population above or near 10,000, located near St. Louis in modern times.
What is Cahokia?
People’s shared values, beliefs, traditions, and behaviors.
What is Culture?
Invention that allowed native peoples to start settling North and South America and making pottery and cloth.
What is farming?
Militaristic describes the Aztecs and this other Mesoamerican civilization.
What is the Inca?
Name of an organization of natives where all members must agree to pass decisions.
What is the Iroquois League?
or
What is the Grand Council of the Iroquois League?
A complex or highly developed society.
What is civilization?
Large game animals they relied on began to die off.
What is prehistoric Americans expanding their food choices?
(I will judge how close)
Mountain fortress devoted to religious practices.
What is Machu Picchu?
Location of native peoples that built large earthworks, some in the shape of animals.
(Hint: name both valleys)
What is the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys?
(I will be the judge of how close.)
A narrow passage of water between two large bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Two climate events that allowed the migration of people from Asia to the Americas.
(Hint: think lowering/rising; need both)
What is lowering sea levels?
What is lowering temperatures?
Access to large quantities of enslaved labor and human sacrifices that were used for an abundant harvest.
What is Aztec conquest?
Region name for farmers who lived in permanent villages.
Hint: regional name, not people-specific
What is the northeastern woodlands?