Geography
This mountain range runs along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This animal was heavily relied upon by the Great Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo?
The Maya developed advanced knowledge of these.
What are astronomy and calendars?
The Aztecs built their capital city of Tenochtitlan on this type of body of water.
What is a lake?
The Inca adapted to mountain life by building these structures to grow food.
What are terrace farms?
Social class in these civilizations often included these three groups.
What are nobles, commoners, and enslaved people?
This large river system supported many Native American cultures in the Midwest.
What is the Mississippi River?
These types of homes were built by tribes in the northeast.
What are wigwams/longhouses?
These are the broad, flat grasslands in the center of North America.
What are the Great Plains?
These easily moveable homes were used by Plains tribes.
What are tepees?
This body of water is located east of North and South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
Southeast tribes in North America were known for these.
What are mound-building and farming?
This peninsula is where the Mayan civilization developed.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Geographic features influenced Plains tribes to become this because they had to move frequently following their food sources.
What is nomadic?
Mayan cities were organized into these self-governing territories.
What are city-states?
Aztec floating gardens were known as this.
What are chinampas?
The Inca kept their records using this type of string knotted in different ways.
What is quipu?
The Maya, along with the Aztec and Inca civilizations, practice this type of religion, in which they worshipped many gods.
What is polytheistic?
This highland region is where the Aztec civilization developed.
What is the Central American Plateau?
Many Native American cultures formed alliances and confederations such as this.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This mountain range is located in western North America.
What are the Rocky Moutains?
The warm, humid climate of the Southeast allowed tribes to grow these three crops.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Diverse Native American cultures differed in these three aspects.
What are language, customs, and political structures?
This continent is located south of North America.
What is South America?
This is an older mountain range in eastern North America.
What are the Appalachians?
The geographical impact for the Mayans encouraged this type of farming.
What is rainforest farming?
The Aztec economy relied heavily on these.
What are trade and tribute?
The Inca built an extensive system of these structures for traveling.
What are highways and roads?
Oral traditions were important because they captured history not through written word, but this way.
What is verbally?