Grab Bag
This migration theory describes traveling along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the coastal migration theory?
The name of the Land bridge the first Americans crossed.
What is the Bering Strait?
Mesoamerica is this type of landform.
What is an isthmus?
A person with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
The location of the Olmec Civilization
What is Mesoamerica?
This name was given to the Olmec.
What is the rubber people?
People who migrate from place to place in search of food.
Who are Hunter-gatherers?
Name two different types of landforms located in Mesoamerica.
What are: mountains
coastal plains
volcanoes
lakes?
Cows, pigs and chickens
What are domesticated animals?
The name of the ball game.
What is Pok-a Tok?
In history, the letters CE stand for this two-word era that we live in today.
What is Common Era?
Explain how agriculture changed the way early people in the Americas lived
What is they stopped moving and planted and harvested crops?
Two different natural resources located in Mesoamerica.
What are obsidian and jade?
A scientist who studies human history by looking at the physical things people left behind.
What is an archeologist?
Olmec believed in worshipping many different gods. Including the Jaguar god. This type of religion is called...
What is polytheistic?
Hunters and gatherers walked across the Bering Strait landbridge searching for these animals.
What is the wooly mammoth?
How did the earliest Americans adapt to the loss of large animals?
What is they:
hunted deer and fish
killed smaller prey?
There are active volcanoes located in Mesoamerica.
What is the volcanic rock that was used to carve the Olmec heads?
Early form of writing using pictures.
What are pictographs?
These artifacts weighed about 8 tons. That is about the same weight as 2 large African elephants.
What are sculptures of Olmec heads?
Trade was important to the Olmec because...
What is they could get the resources they needed?
There are 7 characteristics of civilization. Name one.
Give an example.
What are
agriculture cities specialized labor trade
written language artwork religion?
Explain how elevation and climate are connected.
What is the higher the elevation the cooler the temperature?
The growing of plants and raising domesticated animals.
What is agriculture?
The year the Olmec civilization mysteriously disappered
What is 400 BCE?