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100
Many physical features in the Americas were shaped by these.
What are glaciers?
100
This was a mountaintop city built by the Inca.
What is Machu Picchu?
100
The Aztec god of the sun.
Who was Huitzilopochtli?
100
The Ojibwa called themselves this, which means "original people".
What is anishinabe?
100
A fertile valley between two mountain chains in central Mexico.
What is the Valley of Mexico?
200
The longest mountain range in the Americas.
What is the Andes?
200
This was a trading center founded by the Ojibwa.
What is Bowating?
200
The capital city of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochitlan?
200
The Ojibwa played this game, similar to lacrosse.
What is baggataway?
200
A flat, treeless plain in arctic or subarctic places such as Alaska and Northern Canada.
What is tundra?
300
An imaginary line above which trees cannot grow.
What is timberline?
300
A supreme ruler of the Inca in the 1400s.
Who was Pachakuti?
300
The top of the Aztec social pyramid
What is the emperor?
300
Another word for differences in people.
What is diversity?
300
A mountain range in North America that stretches from Alaska into Mexico.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
400
Three crops the Inca people grow.
What are potatoes, maize, peppers.
400
The village in Peru in which the Inca empire began.
What is Cuzco?
400
The base of the Aztec social pyramid
What are slaves?
400
The three Native American communities that made up the Three Fires Council?
What are Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa?
400
A large rocky plain in Northern Canada that was formed by glaciers during the Ice Age.
What is the Canadian Shield?
500
This geographical feature connects North America and South America.
What is an isthmus?
500
This mean "to fight" and "to enjoy oneself".
What is quechua?
500
Contained information about the history, religion, government, and science of the Aztec.
What is codices?
500
The only color the Aztec emperor was allowed to wear.
What is turquoise?
500
One of the floating islands made by the Aztec around Tenochtitlan for growing crops?
What is chinampas?