Mississippian Culture
The city of Cahokia used this architectural style to symbolize power and status.
What is mound building?
The Olmec are famous for inventing this elasctic material that was used in their famous ball game.
The Olmec, Maya, and Aztec were all located in this modern day country.
What is Mexico?
This person is credited with "re-discovering" the Americas and signaling the interaction between the New World and Old World?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Which era marked a switch from agricultural practices to industrial practices?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The name of the game and stones that were common throughout Mississippian cities.
What is Tchung-Kee or Chunkey?
The Olmec first worshipped this god that is evidenced by a stone relief with a man holding a bag for rituals.
What is the serpent god?
The Maya and Aztec used this monumental architectural style to to conduct rituals and ceremonies.
What are pyramids?
This was the primary cause of death among Native Americans after the migration of the Old World to the New World.
What are diseases?
Which four presidents are on Mt. Rushmore?
Who are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt
The Mississippian art style consisted of these clay objects hardened by fire with spiral / animal designs.
What is pottery?
The Olmec created the famous ball game. However, due to cultural diffusion, the Maya played this game shockingly differently. What item did some Maya play this game with?
What is a bat?
This was the primary written system used by the Maya and Aztec to record events, rituals, and dates.
What are hieroglyphs?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What tribe was Pocahontas from?
What is is the Powhatan nation?
The name of the Mississippian god that Cahokia diffused to other cities?
What is Birdman / Thunderbird?
The Olmec first created this monumental art style to honor their leaders and gods.
What are stone reliefs?
The Olmec, Maya, and Aztec all practiced this ritual to ensure the earth would spin and sun would rise.
What is human sacrifice?
Christopher Columbus first landed in what island nation in the Caribbean / Atlantic Ocean?
What are the Bahamas?
How many battles were fought during the American Revolution? (Need to be within 10)
What is more than 230?
The name of the city in Alabama with over 29 platform mounds that are still present to this day.
What is Moundville?
What is the Aztec name for the "Feathered Serpent god" in Nahautl?
What is Quetzalcoatl?
Christopher Columbus sailed from this European country.
What is Spain?
The Old World reintroduced this animal to the New World.
What are horses?
Teddy Roosevelt was famously diagnosed with asthma as a child. He overcame this disease due to this famously coined lifestyle.
What is the strenuous lifestyle? (he boxed in the white house, was a soldier, journeyed uncharted parts of the Amazon, and finished a speech after getting shot).