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Histories Mysteries
100
a large sheet of ice that forms over water
What is a glacier?
100
The Aztecs and Incas gained power, people, and land by doing this.
What is conquering neighboring peoples and tribes?
100
This is a diagram of several events arranged in the order in which they took place.
What is a timeline?
100
Both the Aztec and the Inca gained land by doing this.
What is conquering their neighbors?
100
Historians think the first Americans arrived here by crossing this.
What is a land bridge (Beringia)?
200
period of extreme cold
What are the Ice Ages?
200
The first people to settle in the Americas did not farm or raise livestock, so they had to survive by doing this.
What is hunting wild animals and gathering plants and/or fruits.
200
These abbreviations indicate whether the year was before or after the birth of Jesus Christ.
What are B.C. and A.D.?
200
Both the Aztec and the Inca did this successfully to provide food, although they did it in different ways.
What is farm?
200
By around 909 A.D. this civilization disappeared for reasons we do not know, abandoning temples and palaces.
Who are the Maya?
300
to force another person or group of people into servitude
What is slavery?
300
The Inca built these to grow crops on steep hillsides.
What are terraces?
300
one hundred years
What is a century?
300
The Aztec practiced this after capturing their enemies.
What is slavery?
300
Historians think a drought may have caused this group of people to leave their cliff dwelling homes.
Who are the Anasazi?
400
large area of land and/or peoples controlled by one ruler or government
What is empire?
400
The Maya and the Olmec both developed these--including systems of governments, religion, and education.
What is a complex culture or civilization?
400
This is how you figure out how many years are in each period of a time line.
What is subtract the lower year from the higher year and/or find the pattern that the time line counts by.
400
This group of people farmed by building terraces in the mountainsides of Ecuador and Chile.
Who is the Inca?
400
These people are named for the mysterious piles of dirt and artifacts that they built.
Who are the Mound Builders?
500
culture that has complex systems of government, education, and religion
What is civilization?
500
The Anasazi farmed in a very dry climate, and so had to do this to help their crops survive.
What is irrigation?
500
This group of people built floating gardens in the lakes and marshes of the Valley of Mexico.
Who are the Aztec?
500
Historians think this is the reason the first Natives Americans were forced to stay in North America.
What is the end of the Ice Age? (glaciers melted, ocean levels rose, and land bridges were covered)