Land Bridge
Hunting and Gathering
Empires
Maya, Aztec, and Inca
Early American Cultures
100

The actual name for the land bridge that connected hemispheres.

What is the Bering Strait

100

The type of large, woolly animal that was hunted during the Ice Age.

Who are the Woolly Mammoth?

100

An empire.

What is a conquering culture?

100

This civilization developed around 3,000 years ago.

Who were the Mayan?

100

The mound builders built their mounds along this North American river.

What is the Mississippi?

200

Early people's choose to use the land bridge for travel and _____________?

What is hunting.

200

When people moved for hunting purposes.


Double Jeopardy

What is migrating?

200

This empire had a city called Copan.

Who were the Maya?

200

This empire had a capital city of Tenochtitlan.

Who were the Aztec?

200

This state is the home to the site of Cahokia.

What is Illinois?

300

The two continents that the land bridge connected.

What are Asian and North America?

300

Another name for people who were gathers. 

Who are farmers?

300

Tribute.

What is the payment people gave their ruler?

300

These two empires had capital cities.

Double Jeopardy

Who were the Aztecs and Inca?

300

An Anasazi underground meeting room.

What is a Kiva?

400

How the land bridge was able to allow people to cross on dry land.

Double Jeopardy

What is the water level dropped?

400

Name of a North American, southwest civilization of gathering people.

Who were the Anasazi?

400

Name two ways the Aztecs ruled their people.

What is slavery and tribute?

400

These two empires began in Mexico.

Who were the Mayan and Aztec?

400

The purpose of a ceremony.

What is to celebrate culture?

500

People who moved across the land bridge from the eastern hemisphere traveled as far south as this continent.

What is South America?

500

How gathering affected migration.

What is people stopped moving and settled in one place?

500

The Incan Empire was very successfully at building this on their land.

What are roads?

500

This empire began in search of an eagle with a snake in its beak sitting on a cactus.

Who were the Aztecs?

500

This tribe in northern Canada is responsible for developing the first kayaks.

Who are the Inuit?