Section 1 Vocab
the study of ancient peoples
What is archeology?
broad platforms cut into mountains
What are terraces?
trenches dug to carry water into fields
What is a channel?
capital of Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
built cliff dwellings
What is the Anasazi?
a period of extreme cold
What is the Ice Age?
a system of record keeping with string
What were quipus?
great stone community dwelling
What is Pueblo?
invented a 365-day calendar
What is the Mayan Empire?
largest settlement of Mound Builders
What is Cahokia?
a food source for early humans
What is a woolly mammoth?
the earliest civilization
What is Olmec?
sun-dried mud brick
What is adobe?
largest of the early civilizations
used teepees
People of the Plains
a movement of a large number of people to a new homeland
What is migration?
a military empire
What is Aztec?
group of related families
What is a clan?
built stone-paved roads over mountains
What is the Inca Empire?
chose male members of Grand Council
What were clan mothers?
this helped turn nomads into farmers
religious center for Inca
What is Machu Picchu?
government that links different groups
What is a federation?
believed in human sacrifice
What is the Aztec Empire?
formed a federation
What is the Iroquois?