Ice Age
This is the name of the Land Bridge that emerged during the last Ice Age
What is Beringia
The Mayans invented this math concept.
Who spread the news throughout the empire?
Who are the chasqui relay runners
Where were the Olmecs located?
What is Mesoamerica
What is King Montezuma II famously known for drinking?
What is hot chocolate.
During the beginning of the Ice Age, how did the glaciers form?
What is global temperatures drop, forming massive continental glaciers that trap ocean water.
The Mayans invented this type of writing.
What are hieroglyphics
A mandatory labor tax system where citizens built roads, bridges, and public works for the state.
What is a Mita
The Olmecs carved these to honor their rulers
What is stone heads.
What does the word Indigenous mean?
What is the original people of an area.
This is the type of people who lived during the Ice Age
What is nomadic.
Name three plants that made up their food diet.
What are maize, beans, and squash.
Name the capital city of the Inca Empire that served as its political and religious center.
What is Cuzco
True or false: The Olmecs traded jade and obsidian.
What is true
A flat agricultural step carved into a steep hillside to prevent soil erosion.
What is a terrace
Identify the natural materials used by early hunter-gatherers to construct spear tips, scrapers, and sewing needles.
What is stone and bone.
These were organized (such as Tikal and Chichen Itza), each led by its own king.
what are city-states
How did the Inca government record census data, tax records, and storehouse supplies without a written alphabet?
What is knotted strings called quipus
What happened when the Europeans started to come over to the Mayans, Incans, and other early American civilizations?
What is they had:
New Challenges: Foreign diseases and conflict reduced native populations
Land Loss: Indigenous groups were often displaced from ancestral territories.
Resilience: Native peoples fought hard to preserve their heritage and traditions.
The primary result of early peoples domesticating wild grasses to grow maize (corn)?
What is communities built permanent villages and grew in size
A natural limestone sinkhole that provided fresh drinking water to Maya settlements.
What is a cenote
He ascends to power and expands the Inca Empire across the Andes Mountains.
Who is Pachacuti
Historians describe the Olmec as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica?
What is they developed art, religious, and trade patterns adopted by later cultures
Which North American culture constructed multi-story sandstone dwellings inside canyon cliffs?