North Americans
This group built large earth mounds in the Southeast.
Who were the Mound Builders?
The Aztec city built on an island in a lake.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This Mayan artifact was carved with inscriptions.
What is a stela?
This dynasty conquered Korea and northern Vietnam.
What was the Han Dynasty?
This clan ruled Japan as regents for the emperor.
Who were the Fujiwara?
The empire in Cambodia.
What was the Khmer Empire?
List both of the Mesoamerican Civilizations that existed before the Aztecs.
This group included the Cahokia people.
Who were the Mississippians?
The Incan system of recording data using knotted strings.
What is quipu?
This land bridge connected Asia and North America.
What is Beringia?
This dynasty saw Li Po write poetry.
What was the Tang Dynasty?
These powerful leaders held real power beginning in 1192.
Who were the shoguns?
The kingdom in central and southern Vietnam.
What was Champa?
These Southwestern Indians were known as “cliff dwellers.”
Who were the Pueblo Indians?
The alliance between Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
What is the Triple Alliance?
This god was worshiped by some Aztecs but rejected by the Toltecs.
Who was Quetzalcoatl?
This dynasty witnessed major advances in printing and porcelain.
What was the Song Dynasty?
This ruler made Buddhism Japan’s national religion.
Who was Prince Shotoku?
The early Vietnamese kingdom that broke free of China.
What was Dai Viet?
This group was united widely by trade networks.
Who were the Hopewell?
The precise Mayan calendar.
What is the Long Count Calendar?
The Maya believed this supported the sky.
What is the Ceiba Tree?
This dynasty was overthrown by General Li Yuan.
What was the Sui Dynasty?
The unwritten military code of warriors.
What is Bushido?
The religion supporting the divine origin of the emperor.
What is Shinto?
This effigy mound in Ohio is over 1,300 feet long.
What is the Great Serpent Mound?
Name of the city that sought to become influential during the Mayan classic period?
What is Chichen Itza or Tikal
This Mesoamerican civilization believed the sun fell into the underworld each night.
Who were the Maya?
This project connected the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers.
What is the Grand Canal?
The name for a Japanese warrior.
What is a samurai?
The political and economic change in Japan’s structure.
What is Taika?
This term describes Indians who shared similar customs and ways of life.
What is a culture area?
The Mesoamerican civilization that required military service for all men.
Who were the Aztecs?
These are groups of several families that share a common culture.
What is a tribe?
This painful custom ended in the 19th century.
What is foot binding?
The first emperor of Japan.
Who was Emperor Jimmu?
The Minamoto leader granted the title shogun.
Who was Minamoto Yoritomo?