Reason people crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to the Americas.
What is they were following the animals they ate?
100
Way the Anasazi were able to farm in a dry area?
What is they dug ditches to carry water from the streams to their crops (irrigation)?
100
Most of this early American culture lived east of the Mississippi River.
What are the Mound Builders?
100
Reason the Mayans had a surplus and began to specialize or develop skills such as basket weaving, jewelry making, and stone carving.
What is they were very successful farmers and had a surplus of food
100
This cultural group built thousands of miles of road; their capital was Cuzco; they were located in present day Peru.
What is the Incas?
200
Reason early Americans did not live in one place.
What is they were following their food?
200
A high flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it.
What is a mesa?
200
This early American culture lived in what is today the Southwest of the United States.
What is the Anasazi?
200
Name the two typed of information that are shown on a climograph.
What is precipitation and temperature?
200
This cultural group was located in Mexico; they built Tenochtitian.
What is the Aztecs?
300
Vocabulary word which means "to move"
What is to migrate?
300
A large underground room used for religious ceremonies by the Anasazi.
What is a kiva?
300
This early American culture lived in what is today Canada near the Artic circle.
What is the Inuit?
300
How did both the Aztecs and the Incans increase the size of their empire?
What is by conquering other people?
300
This group demanded tributes from the people they conquered.
What is the Aztecs?
400
Way Early Americans got food when the weather FIRST became warmer (around 10,000 years ago).
What is became hunter gatherers?
400
The mounds of the Mound Builders tell us that these people were _______ and __________.
What is well-organized and that trade was important to them?
400
This early American culture was known as the Cliff Dwellers.
What is the Anasazi?
400
Name 3 ways the Aztecs developed more land for farming.
What is 1. created floating gardens; 2. developed irrigation systems; 3. carved terraces, or wide, flattened steps, into the hillsides?
400
This cultural group settled in present-day Mexico 3,000 years ago. Their descendants can still be found in Mexico and Central America.
What is the Mayans?
500
What early Americans learned to do (about 7,000 years ago) that allowed them to settle in one place.
What is farm or grow food for themselves?
500
Name 3 reasons the people known as the Mound Builders built mounds.
What is 1.burial places for important chiefs; 2 to honor animal spirits 3. a place to hold religious or other ceremonies?
500
This was developed by Inuit to get to the walruses they hunted.
What is a kayak?
500
Name 4 achievements of the Mayans.
What is 1. they developed an accurate calendar; 2. the were the first people to use the number zero (mathematics) 3. they built pyramids; 4. they developed a system of writing?
500
What writing allowed the Mayan people to do.
What is record their history and what they learned about mathematics and science?