Row 1
When did the Hopewell culture decline?
By AD 700
Some of the earliest American cultures emerged in _________________, which includes the southern section of what is now Mexico and northern Central America.
Mesoamerica
What is the name given to an island in Lake Texcoco?
Tenochtitlán
Who lived in modern-day northern Alaska and Canada?
The Inuit
What caused people to stop roaming about hunting for food and instead settle in one location?
Farming
Who developed a sophisticated system of highways that stretched the length of the empire, with paved roads and rope bridges connecting all sections of the territory?
The Inca
The Pueblo religion concentrated on two major aspects of Pueblo life, which are?
Rain and Maize
Where is the Bering Land Bridge located?
Northeastern Asia and present-day Alaska
Whose home was in western and southern Alaska, and they lived in partially underground multifamily houses?
The Aleut
People learned to agriculture and settled in villages around when?
After 5000 BC
What do geographers refer to a stretch of territory between northeastern Asia and present-day Alaska as?
Bering Land Bridge
Who had declined by the time European explorers reached the Southeast, with their cultures extinct by the early 1700s?
The moundbuilding cultures
What were the names given to sacred sites used for religious ceremonies?
Kivas
Where was the location of the Inca's origin?
Andes Mountains of South America
Who lived in the Mississippi, Ohio, and Lower Missouri River valleys?
The Hopewell
Who resided in the Four Corners region, which now includes Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
Anasazi
What was the official language of the Inca empire?
Quechua
Who were tough warriors whose great military skills were critical to their success?
The Aztec
Most Native Americans in the California region lived in households of 50 to 300 people, and these groups, which included the Hupa, Miwok, and Yokuts, spoke more than how many languages?
100 languages were spoken
Who constructed hundreds of mounds for religious ceremonies?
The Mississippian
The Earth's climate warmed, and the Ice Age ended around what time?
About 8000 BC
What are the climates and landscapes that surround living things referred to as?
Environments
When did the Olmec establish the first known civilization in Mesoamerica around?
Around 1200 BC
Like the Olmec, the _______ cultivated maize and other crops and lived in tiny villages.
The Maya
Around when did the Maya start building large cities?
About AD 200
Ancestor or animal spirits atop tall wooden poles were known as?
Totems
When did the first people come to North America?
The Ice Age
The Anasazi thrived for hundreds of years, but when did they start to abandon their villages?
After AD 1300
When did the Maya civilization begin to collapse?
In the 900s
When did the Olmec civilization end?
Around 400 BC
What provided a good defense against adversaries by constructing their homes on canyon walls?
Cliff Dwellings
What was one of Native Americans' most significant early crops?
Maize, or corn
What was the term used to describe moving from place to place in search of tiny animals and food?
Nomadic
What is the movement of people or animals from one location to another referred to as?
Migration
People traced their lineage through their mothers rather than their dads, which was known as?
Matrilineal
Most Native American faiths were related with what?
Nature
Which region encompasses the current states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Texas?
The Southwest culture region
Native Americans held similar beliefs about _______, believing that individual ownership was limited to the crops grown.
Property
What is the estimated population of the Inca empire?
12 million people
Which people followed animal herds south into Canada, the United States, and Mexico?
Paleo-Indians
Who benefited from the abundant supply of game animals, fish, and natural plants, which allowed big populations to grow without the need for farming?
The Kwakiutl and the Chinook
Cone-shaped shelters were known as?
Teepees
Who is famous for their use of stone in architecture and sculpture, having erected the earliest pyramids in the Americas and creating sculptures of massive stone heads?
The Olmec
Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca formed the _____________with the objective of strengthening the alliance against invasion.
Iroquois League
Which region stretches south from Canada into Texas?
The huge Great Plains
People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food were known as what?
Hunter-Gatherers
When was Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital founded?
In AD 1325
Aboveground buildings composed of heavy clay were known as what?
Pueblos
What was red heavy clay known as?
Adobe
What is the word for a group's common principles and conventions, such as language, government, and familial relationships?
Culture