Climate Survival
You can't grow much in the Arctic, so the people who lived there survived by doing this.
Hunting and fishing seals and whales
The Maya economy was based on this type of job.
What is Farming?
These massive geoglyphs in South America were made by the ancestors of the Inca. How and why they were made remains a mystery.
What are the Nazca Lines?
Though they had different reasons for doing so, both the Aztec and Maya religions included this practice.
What is Human Sacrifice?
Like the Ancient Egyptians, the Maya and the Aztecs also built these large ceremonial structures, though they were used in different ways.
What are Pyramids?
This portable, tent-like dwelling was ideal for North American cultures living on the great plains.
What is a Teepee?
The Inca government established this system, which had people pay taxes with their labor instead of with their money.
What is the Mita System?
Though archaeologists disagree on how people got to the Americas, DNA evidence suggests that they came from which continent?
What is Asia?
The Maya were able to use their knowledge of the stars and planets to create this, which did not actually predict the end of the world in 2012.
What is a calendar?
The Aztecs built these artificial islands to give them more space to grow their crops.
What are Chinampas?
With the desert on one side and the dense jungle on the other, this group found the Andes Mountains to be the best place for them to live.
Who are the Inca?
To unify their empire, the Inca used several strategies. One of them was to build a network of these, to make travel and communication much easier.
What are roads and bridges?
North American cultures of the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast built these earthwork structures all over the place. Their purpose remains unclear.
What are mounds?
One of the Maya's most important rituals was this activity done on a special court; some groups in Central America are trying to bring it back.
What is the ball game?
The Inca Capital, where the Sapa Inca lived and ran the empire.
What is Cuzco?
The Iroquois and other nearby tribes built Longhouses to help them survive this region's harsh winters.
What is the Northeast Woodlands?
The Aztecs established this kind of economy, which let each person produce and trade what they wanted to.
What is a Market Economy?
Though we know they were used for record-keeping, we have lost the knowledge of how to read this Inca innovation.
What are Quipus?
To the Aztecs and the Maya, priests and kings were the only ones who could communicate with these.
Who are the gods?
This ancient Aztec city once housed over a million people, making it the largest city on earth for a time.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Making the most of their desert environment, this ancient group of North Americans built their adobe houses into the sides of cliffs.
Though their climates and cultures were different, archaeology suggests that these two ancient Mesoamerican groups often traded with each other.
Who are the Olmecs and the Zapotecs?
North American archaeology in the past has been poorly done and misinterpreted. As a result, there is controversy over whether North Americans ever developed these technologies/civics (3 possible answers)
What is Iron Working?
What is Written Language?
What is Organized Religion?
When the Inca Empire conquered new territory, they decreed that every person would learn this.
What is Quechua/Inca Language?
The largest known city in Ancient North America, at its peak it housed 10,000 people.
What is Cahokia?