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100
Where do most scientists trace the lineage of Native Americans?
What is NE Asia?
DNA also suggests from:
100
What is the name of the land bridge that once connected America and Asia?
What is Beringia
100
Cactus Hill has been dated to this age:
What is 16,000 -18,000 years ago / 14,000 - 16,000 BCE?
100
This factor supposedly kept people from settling the Americas
What is the Ice Sheets / Glaciers / Ocean?
100
How long ago did the ice-free corridor open between Alaska and the rest of the continent to the south?
What is 13,000 years ago / 11,000 BCE?
200
In the Americas, this plant was cultivated about 9,000 years ago in Mexico
What is corn / maize?
200
This mechanism is used to figure out how old something is until ~50,000 years of age
What is Carbon Dating?
EC: What molecule of carbon is used?
200
Why do some people believe that America may have been settled by Europeans some 17,000 - 18,000 years ago?
What is similar tools found amongst the Solutreans (people of ancient Spain / France) and the Native Americans?
EC: Where in New Mexico are these points named after?
EX:
200
About 9,000 years ago, this crop was cultivated in South America, and continues to be important today
What is the potato?
EC: When was the Escalante Potato found in Utah domesticated, according to research?
200
Name 3 crops that the Ancient Native Americans domesticated?
What is corn / potatoes / sweet potatoes / cotton / cacao (chocolate) beans / beans / squash / etc.
300
This is progenitors (1500 BCE - 300 BCE) to the latter civilizations in Central America
Who are the Olmec?
EC: What are they famous for?
300
Give a few facts about the marvelous city of the Aztecs: Tenochtitlan:
What is:
- Waterways / Man-created islands / Trash Removal / Bigger than most cities in Europe (200,000+), etc.
300
This person discovered the famed "city in the clouds" in 1911 in Peru
Who is Hiram Bingham?
EC: What is the city called?
300
Daily Double: This, the most impressive (discovered) city of the Mayans is found in Guatemala today, and has 5 impressive pyramids.
What is Tikal?
What sort of government did the Maya have?
300
What simple tool did the ancient Native American civilizations never exploit, except as children's toys?
What is the wheel?
400
Share 2 facts about the Mound Builders:
AKA the Mississippians / Built Cahokia, a huge city of 20,000 / Made big earthen pyramids / made the Great Serpent Mound / etc.
400
Name at least two cool facts about the Inca civilization:
They had rope bridges / used terraces / used quipu (no writing) / domesticated llamas, etc.
400
Name the two conquistadors that conquered the Aztecs and Incas respectively
Hernan Cortes (Aztecs) and Fransisco Pizarro (Incas)
400
Give us a weird but interesting fact about one of the ancient groups we discussed (Inca, Maya, etc.)
Lots of options!
E.C.: Others?
400
What do people expect led to the downfall of the Mayan?
What is drought?
500
What group of people live in Nunavut, Canada, like they have for 100s of years?
Who are the Inuit?
500
Share a few facts about some of the more modern tribes in the Americas:
Check Ch. 1.3:
500
Final Jeopardy:
Share at least 5 details / info about the Anasazi:
500
Name 3 of the tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederation
Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga
EC: Share another fact about the Iroquois:
500
Share 2 facts that haven't been mentioned during the review already:
Thank you!