Ancient Civilizations
The Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans were all examples of ancient ________.
Civilizations
This is the term for moving form one place to another.
Migration
The most used term for the first peoples of the Americas is this.
Native American
Native Americans who lived near the seacoast and the oceans adapted and mostly did this for food.
Caught fish and other aquatic animals to eat.
The first Native Americans are thought to have come to the Americas from where?
Asia
This ancient civilization was found mostly in Mexico.
Aztecs
The Earth cools and sees many glaciers form during this event.
Items used to describe the history of humans are known as these.
Artifacts
Native Americans first had stable communities after they learned to plant this crop.
Maize
This viking was thought to have reached the Americas as the first European.
Leif Erikson
This ancient civilization was found in South America.
Incans
Name of the land bridge that allowed the first Natives to come to the Americas.
Beringia
The first Natives roamed for food and were called these.
Nomads
Native Americans who lived in desert areas adapted and built their homes from what?
Time periods of immense dryness and lack of rain.
Droughts
This ancient civilization was found mostly in Central American
Mayans
Body of water that now sits in the place of the land bridge from years ago.
Bering Strait
Carbon Dating
Native Americans who lived in the dry Great Plains mostly did this for food.
Hunted animals such as Bison and other game.
Pueblos
This is the name for worshipping more than one God. Which many early cultures did.
Polytheism
Explain how the land bridge was created in order for the first people to cross into North America.
An Ice Age lowered the water levels, which allowed for more land on the surface.
This is the study of ancient civilizations and human history.
Archaeology
This term describes the way of life of a group of people.
Culture
This is the first known European to have reached the Americas.
Christopher Columbus