Peoples of North America 1
According to the Land Bridge Migration theory, people crossed this to reach the Americas.
What is Beringia, or the Bering Land Bridge, or the Bering Strait.
This animal was the most important resource for Plains tribes, providing food, shelter, and tools.
What is the buffalo, or bison?
This system required conquered city-states to provide goods, labor, and human sacrifices to the ruling empire.
What is the tribute system?
This early civilization is known as the "Mother Culture," of Mesoamerica.
Who were the Olmec?
The Inca Empire did not use money but relied on this labor tax system, requiring citizens to work for the state in exchange for feasts and resources.
What is the mit’a system?
This traditional farming technique used by the Iroquois and Cherokee involved planting corn, beans, and squash together.
What is the Three Sisters method?
This Native American culture, known for constructing large geometric and effigy mounds, built the famous Great Serpent Mound.
Who were the Hopewell?
This Mesoamerican civilization developed an advanced hieroglyphic writing system, a 365-day calendar, and a mathematical system including zero.
Who were the Maya?
The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice primarily to ensure this.
What is give the sun the strength to rise or cross the sky?
Without a written language, the Inca recorded information using this system of knotted cords.
What are quipus?
This indigenous group of the Arctic, whose name means "the people" in their language, relied on hunting caribou, seals, and whales for survival.
Who are the Inuit?
This is where ancestral Puebloans/Anasazi built their multi-story adobe homes, for protection and shelter.
What are cliffs or mountains?
This indigenous group of southern Mexico, known for their advanced pottery and metallurgy, inherited cultural traditions from the Zapotec civilization.
Who are the Mixtec?
These are the most famous works of the Olmec civilization, believed to represent their rules. They are thousands of years old and fifteen remain today.
This is the oldest known civilization in the Americas, part of a civilization that focused on trade and religion rather than warfare.
What is Caral-Supe?
These are the founding figures (2) of the Iroquois League that helped establish the Great Law of Peace which set up a representative democracy in Eastern North America.
Who are Hiawatha and Deganawida?
This is one of the different types of mounds built in North America.
Burial mounds, rituals, storytelling, or ceremonial.
The Aztecs developed this innovative farming technique, using artificial islands to grow crops on the shallow waters of lakes.
What are chinampas?
This civilization, based in the Oaxaca Valley, built the city of Monte Albán and developed one of Mesoamerica’s earliest writing systems.
Who were the Zapotec?
This ruler transformed the small Kingdom of Cusco into the vast Inca Empire through military conquests and strategic alliances.
Who was Pachacuti (Inca Yupanqui)?
This ceremonial event involved gift-giving to demonstrate wealth and social status among Pacific Northwest tribes.
What is a potlatch?
The Mississippians built this massive settlement, which included Monks Mound, the largest earthen structure in North America.
What is Cahokia?
This ancient city, known for its Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon, was one of the largest cities in the world during its peak.
What is Teotihuacan?
This ancient sport, first played by the Olmec and later by the Maya, sometimes resulted in the sacrifice of the losing team.
What is Pok-A-Tok?
The Inca Empire was weakened by a civil war between these two half-brothers before being conquered by the Spanish.
Who were Atahualpa and Huáscar?