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100
Much of the earth's water was frozen during this time.
What is the Ice Age?
100
A huge sheet of ice on the Earth's surface
What is a glacier?
100
A period of 100 years.
What is a century?
100
The Incan capital
What is cuzco?
100
By around this time, the Maya civilization disappeared for reasons we do not know.
What is AD 909
200
Aztec prisoners were forced into this
What is slavery?
200
A period of ten years.
What is a decade?
200
A diagram showing the order in which events took place.
What is a timeline?
200
The Maya developed complex cultures around 300 B.C. in these two countries.
What is Mexico and Guatemala?
200
Archaelogists believe that the Mound Builders first built small rounded piles of earth for this reason.
What is to bury their dead?
300
The first people to settle the Americas survived by doing this
What is hunting and gathering?
300
The main food source of the Mayas
What is corn or maize?
300
Group of people who built terraces to grow crops on steep hillsides.
What is the Inca?
300
These four states meet all at one point.
What is Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado
300
The Maya left behind artifacts and evidence of their complex ______________.
What is civilization?
400
This is a large area of different people controlled by one ruler or government.
What is empire?
400
These people created a calendar and played ceremonial ball games.
What is Olmec?
400
This was a land bridge that connected Asia and North America at one time.
What is Beringia?
400
The Aztec and the Inca empires gained power by doing this.
What is conquering neighboring peoples?
400
Both the Maya and the Olmec developed this.
What is developed complex cultures?
500
The first people to build small rounded piles of earth to bury their dead.
What is Mound Builders?
500
This farming method was used to be able to farm in the desert.
What is irrigation?
500
The Spanish invaded this empire that ended by 1572
What is Inca?
500
Discoveries in South America and Central Mexico show that people started to plant seeds there as early as this date.
What is 7000BC
500
Pachkuti expanded the Inca ___________ by clearing land for settlement.
What is empire?