First Americans
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Mesoamerica
Trade
100
This theory believes that people walked over frozen water from Siberia into Alaska
What is the land bridge theory?
100
These are thick sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
100
These are small boasts made from skins
What are kayaks?
100
This is a group of people lived in what is now modern southern Mexico and Central America.
Who are the Mayans?
100
Name the 3 continents which were linked by trade
What is Europe, Africa, and Asia?
200
These people who walked from Siberia into Alaska were this
What is hunter/gatherers...nomads?
200
This is a method to water crop by channeling water from rivers or streams
What is irrigation?
200
This was a ceremony at which the hosts showered their guests with gifts.
What is potlach?
200
This civilization built their city, Tenochtitlan, on a series of islands in a large lake
Who are the Aztec?
200
This religion was spread by merchants trading in other countries
What is Islam?
300
This theory was the idea that people first crossed the arctic waters by boat and traveled southward along the Pacific coast
What is the coastal route theory?
300
This means extra (usually pertains to food)
What is surplus?
300
These are groups of families that were related to one another.
What are clans?
300
The Mayans invented the most accurate this (we perfected it)
What is the calendar?
300
This city was know as a city of learning
What is Timbuktu?
400
This is roughly how many years ago farming began in Mexico
What is 8,000 years ago?
400
This is a way of life
What is culture?
400
This is the belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
400
This civilization was the largest empire in the world by the 1400s
What is the Inca empire?
400
A strong leader and these features helped unify China
What is created highways, canals, and a postal system?
500
Scientist believe that the first people to arrive in North America came around this many years ago
What is 20,000-30,000 years ago?
500
These are regions in which groups of people have a similar way of life
What are culture areas?
500
This is a form of government in which people choose representatives to govern them.
What is a republic?
500
This was the Inca capital
What is Cuzco?
500
These were a well known series of routes to China
What is the silk road?
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