Vocabulary
The first people arrived in North America during the last Ice Age
What is...The Ice Age?
People who crossed the bridge into Alaska
What is...Paleo-Indians?
A bridge between northeastern Asia and present day Alaska
What is...Bering Land Bridge?
True or False
10,000 years ago was the end of the Ice Age
What is...True
Large amounts of water freeze into huge moving sheets of ice.
What is...glaciers?
What is...Migration?
Built the first pyramids in America
What is...Olmec?
Cone shaped houses
What is...TeePees?
True or False
The Olmec developed the earliest known civilizations.
What is...True?
True or False
People gave up everything that they had for a totem pole
What is...True?
People who hunted animals and gather wild plants for food.
What is...Hunter-gatherers?
Grew maize, build large cities and canals
What is...Maya?
A chamber, underground, used for religious ceremonies
What is...a kiva?
Define matrilineal
What is...People who traced their ancestors through their mothers?
The 4 corner region included what states
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
A group's set of common values and traditions
What is...Culture
Fierce warriors
What is...Aztec?
Define pueblo
What is...above ground houses made of heavy clay called adobe?
Which tribe made pull toys for their children:
A. Maya
B. Olmec
C. Aztec
What is...Olmec?
A small tribe in the Andes of South America
What is...Inca?
Above ground houses made of heavy clay called adobe
What is...Pueblos?
Lived in the 4 corner region
What is...Anasazi?
Name the tribe that made long houses
What is...Iroquois?
People followed moving herds of animals for:
A. food
B. pets
C. for fun
D. to cross the Bering Land Bridge
What is... A for food?