What was the area where Sumeria was located called? (Hint: Think about a vocabulary word that means to be able to make seeds or have babies and the shape of the moon)
The Fertile Crescent
100
What CONTINENT did the first Native Americans come from?
Asia
100
What is Mesoamerica called today (what country is it)?
Mexico
100
What kind of home did the Inuit live in when they hunted? (Hint: they lived in a cold, snowy environment)
An igloo
100
Which Conquistador conquered the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
200
What did the Sumerian's write on?
Clay tablets
200
What were the two ways the first Native Americans came by?
Boats and walking across the Land Bridge
200
What kinds of temples did the Mayans and Aztecs build?
Pyramids
200
What was the name of the King who started the church of England?
Henry VIII
300
What was a person who wrote things (such as official documents) called?
A scribe
300
What kinds of animals were the first Native Americans following? (List 2)
Mammoths, Mastadons, Bison,
300
What did the Aztecs do to the people of the tribes they conquered?
Human sacrifice
300
Why did the Chickee hut of tribes living in Florida have no walls?
To let in the air when it was hot
300
Where did Hernando Cortes land first?
Cuba
400
What were the two civilizations of the Fertile Crescent?
The Sumerians, the Babylonians
400
What were conditions on the land bridge like (was it nice and warm, cold, icy...)
Icy and cold
400
What was the name of the Aztec Emperor?
Montezuma
400
What type of homes did tribes in the Southwest deserts build?
Adobe houses or cliff dwellings
400
Which Conquistador conquered the Incan Empire?
Francisco Pizzaro
500
What were the two rivers the Fertile Crescent rested between?
The Tigris and Euphrates
500
What was the land bridge called?
Beringia, the Bering Straight, or the Bering Land Bridge
500
What was the name of the Aztec capital city? (Hint: it is now Mexico City)
Teotihuacan
500
The Iroquois Confederacy was 5 tribes that came together to protect what from who?
Double point Bonus: Name a tribe of the confederacy
Their traditional land from the white European invaders
Tribes: Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga
500
What was the name of the Incan Emperor at the time of the conquest?