Migration to the New World
The continents that make up the New World.
What are North America and South America?
Groups of people that survived by having the men hunt animals and the women gather plants, berries, and huts.
What are hunter-gatherers?
This civilization was located in what in now Mexico.
What is the Aztec civilization?
This civilization is located in what is now Peru.
What is the Inca civilization?
Many ancient civilizations used these as their form of writing.
What are hieroglyphics/glyphs?
A word that means to move from one place to another.
What is migrate?
This is what made it possible for the first Americans to settle in one place.
What is farming or agriculture?
This civilization was located in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
What is the Maya civilization?
The Inca people built these to help travelers cross deep canyons and gorges.
What are rope bridges?
The beliefs, customs, arts, way of life, of a particular group.
What is culture?
The name of the hypothesis that says people may have crossed a "land bridge" from Asia to what is now Alaska to reach the New World.
This culture lived in the Caribbean and was the first group of people Columbus met when he and his crew reached the New World.
What is the Taino culture?
This civilization built their capital city in a swamp because they believed the gods told them to.
Who are the Aztecs?
The Inca people cut "steps" into the sides of mountains in order to have flat land for farming called this.
What is terracing?
This is someone who studies human history and prehistory.
What is an archeologist?
The name of the hypothesis that says people from Asia may have traveled in boats down the west coast of North America to reach the New World.
What is the Coastal Migration Hypothesis?
This Paleo-Indian culture was well known for their burial mounds.
What was the Adena culture?
The Maya people were spread out over a large distance and had these so that each area of the civilization had its own government.
What are city-states?
Moving water from one place to another for farming.
What is irrigation?
Objects left behind by ancient cultures and civilizations.
What are artifacts?
The name of the migration hypothesis that says a group of people from Europe may have built boats and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to reach the New World.
What is the Solutrean Hypothesis?
This Paleo-Indian culture lived on the northwest coast of North America and hunted and fished in the ocean to survive.
What is the Haida culture?
Inca farmers kept records using pieces of string called this.
What is quipu?
These were small artificial islands used by the Aztecs for farming.
What are chinampas?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?