Migration
Humans would have eaten this large, elephant-like animal while migrating through the land-bridge.
What are mammoths?
This civilization heavily influenced the Mayans.
Who are the Olmecs?
An Aztec tool that created a shrieking sound, similar to a human scream.
What is a death whistle?
What are roads and bridges?
Native Americans of the Plains region depended on this animal.
What are buffalo?
A strip of land that connected Siberia and Alaska when sea levels were low during the last Ice Age.
What is Beringia?
What is the name of the Mexican peninsula that was controlled by the Mayans?
The Yucatan Peninsula
What is a macuahitl?
Unlike the other civilizations we've studied, the Inca lived in this continent.
What is South America?
With access to vast forests, the Natives of this area created homes, clothing, and baskets from wood and bark.
What is the Western region?
A crop that allowed early Native Americans to give up hunting and gathering and begin farming.
What is maize (or corn)?
The Mayans used this to expand their empire.
What is trade?
"Floating gardens" that allowed the Aztecs to grow food in the middle of their lake.
What are chinampas?
A style of farming used by the Inca in which multiple platforms were cut into the sides of mountains.
What are terraces?
A government that links and unites different groups, as done by the Iroquois.
This theory of migration involved people using canoes to travel along the coastline of Siberia and Alaska.
What is the Kelp Highway?
A Mayan game in which a rubber ball was passed between players using only their hips.
What is pok-ta-pok?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Inca Empire existed around the same time as this Native American empire.
What is the Aztec Empire?
The Olmecs created large sculptures in this shape for unknown reasons.
What are heads?
A word for the massive ice sheets that trapped ocean water on land and lowered sea levels.
What is a "glacier?"
The Mayan system of government, in which religious leaders made political descisions.
What is a theocracy?
One of the three punishments given to people conquered by the Aztecs (3 options).
Slavery, tribute/taxes, human sacrifice.
An Inca invention for keeping records using knotted multi-colored string.
What are quipus?
In this dry region, Native Americans created homes from mud and dirt adobe bricks.
What is the Southwestern region?