Maya
The Maya planted what main crop to farm?
What is maize?
The Inca Empire was either the biggest or largest of the ancient American civilizations
What is the biggest?
The greatest city in the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
The land bridge that early peoples traveled on to get to present-day Alaska
What is Beringia?
The reason one of the Hopewell burial grounds was called "The Great Serpent Mound"
What is because it looked like a giant snake?
What is a theocracy?
What is a society ruled by religious leaders?
The emperor descended from ____________
Who is the sun god?
The religious practice done to please the Aztec gods
What is human sacrifice?
People who study ancient peoples
What are archaeologists?
The native peoples of the North
Who are the Inuit?
The Mayans used this type of science to keep accurate records.
What is astronomy?
The capital city of the Inca Empire
What is Cuzco?
The symbol Aztec warriors saw in Texcoco that made them think that particular place was their new home.
What is an eagle sitting on a cactus?
Before farming, early peoples did what to get food?
What is hunt and gather?
The two native tribes that formed federations, or governments that linked different groups, together
Who are the Iroquois and the Cherokee?
The Maya built their civilization in these present-day countries.
What are Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize?
The system of record keeping with strings
What is quipus?
One reason why the Aztec empire was so powerful
What is their military/army?
What early tools and weapons were made from
What is bone?
The Hopi, Acoma, and Zuni peoples formed homes from this type of mud brick
What is Adobe?
The Maya civilization ended around this year.
What is 1100 AD?
A special city devoted to religious ceremonies
What is Machu Picchu?
The exact year the warriors "discovered" the island that was to be their new home
What is 1325?
Define carbon dating
What is measuring the amount of radioactive carbon that remains in something that was once alive?
The 4 corners where the Anasazi settled
Where are Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico?