Corn/Crops
In what season does corn grow? Pg. 16
Summer
What was the largest city built by the Toltec? Pg. 19
Tula
Who were the "first great cultivators of corn"? Pg. 18
Mayans
In American continents did people use domestication of animals or game management? Pg. 15
Game management
Who invented the rubber ball? Pg. 18
Mayans
How long can corn go without water? Pg. 16
Twenty to thirty days
When was Tenochtitlan built? Pg. 19
1325
What civilization absorbed the Olmecs? Pg. 19
The Toltec
What people had a "clan-village system of democracy"? Pg. 24
The Haudenosaunee people
How long was the longest known canal built by the Hohokams? Pg. 22
Twenty miles
What are three of the crops the Aztecs grew? Pg. 20
beans, cotton, tobacco, tomatoes, pumpkin, cocoa
Where was the city-state Calhuacan built? Pg. 19
The southern shore of Lake Texcoco
Whose constitution was the Great Law of Peace? Pg. 25
The Haudenosaunee people
What does Huhugam mean? Pg. 21-22
"those who have gone"
The Anasazi
When was the earliest evidence of corn in the Sonora Desert? Pg. 21
2000 BC
Who built Teotihuacan? Pg. 19
The Olmec
When did Montezuma II come to power? Pg. 21
1503
What is potlatch? Pg. 24
"Ceremonial distribution or destruction of accumulated goods"
When did the Mayans develop the concept of zero? Pg. 18
36 BC
What crops are in the "nutritious triad"? Pg. 16
corn, beans, squash
"Domestication of plants took place in seven locales during approximately the same period." What three of these locales were in the Americas? Pg. 15
The Valley of Mexico and Central America, the South Central Andes in South America, and eastern North America
Who did the Aztecs acquire turquoise from? Pg. 20
What are two of the reasons precolonial Americas were so densely populated? Pg. 17
"Disease free paradise", herbal medicine, dentistry, hygienic and ritual bathing, surgery
What were three things developed by the Mayans? Pg. 18
Art, architecture, sculpture, painting, astronomy, mathematics