Ice Age
How long ago was the Ice Age?
40,000 to 10,000 years ago
What was the purpose of the mounds that the mound builders built?
To bury their chiefs
Who created floating gardens?
The Aztecs
What do they make their sunglasses out of?
Bones
Surplus
More than what is needed.
Moving from one location to another
Migrate
What is the definition of ceremony?
An activity done for a special purpose or event, such as a birth, wedding, or death.
What area did the Maya people do great in?
Farming
What do they build and live in?
Igloos
Bering Strait
Land Bridge from Asia to North America
During the Ice Age, people lived in big groups. True or False?
False
Where is Cahokia located?
Illinois
What developed as a result of the mayan study of the ovements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets?
Calendar
The Inuits are successful hunters. True or false?
False
Tribute
The payment demanded by rulers from the people they rule.
How did people survive during this time?
They would hunt Mammoth, and use the hide as blankets/clothes, use their bones as building tools, and food.
Anasazi only ate the animals that they hunted. True or false?
False
The Aztecs carved terraces into hillsides. True or false?
True
Where do they live? (What countries)
Alaska (US), Canada, Greenland
Mesa
A high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it
Land Bridge that allowed people to migrate from Asia to North America
Bering Strait
How did the Anasazi become successful farmers?
How did the Aztecs extend their borders to reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans?
Conquering other people in the Valley of Mexico
Where did they migrate from originally?
Asia
Empire
A group of lands and peoples ruled by one leader.