Who?
This is the name of the Native American tribe that lived in the Southeast region of what is now the United States.
What is Mississippians?
These are the three types of "houses" that North American tribes lived in.
What are tepees, wigwams, and longhouses?
These two reasons explain why slash and burn was used.
What is it cleared the land and fertilized the soil.
The years of Olmecs' civilization:
800 CE - 1200 BCE
1200 BCE - 400 BCE
500 CE - 900 CE
When is 1200 BCE - 400 BCE
The Pueblo lived in this region of North America.
Where is the SouthWest?
This is the name of the North American tribe who lived in the Southwest region of what is now United States.
Who are the Pueblos?
This is the type of writing the Mayans created (pictures that represent words)
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the reason why the Mayans traveled to caves to pray.
Because caves were a portal to the world of the ancestors.
These civilizations came in this order
Who are the Olmecs, Mayans, Zapotecs
What is Olmecs, Zapotecs, Mayans
The Maya Empire was located on the_____
Where is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This group lived in south-central Mexico.
Who were the Olmecs?
This is the name of the various stories/beliefs that religions of all types use to help people understand how we (as humans) came into existence.
What is a creation story?
This is the reason why temples were built on top of pyramids.
What is to represent the higher role of priests and/or to show their closeness to gods.
This is the year when the Mayans disappeared.
When is 850 CE?
The Olmecs lived in the area of this present day country.
Where is Mexico?
This is the name of the North American natives who were mostly hunters/gatherers.
Who were the Great Plains People?
This is the reason Mayans preferred elongated foreheads.
What is so that they resembled the corn they were made from?
This is the reason why no shadows appear 2 times a year, which is noted on the Mayan calendars.
What is the Zenith Passage?
Year that the Ancestral Pueblos began building connected stone houses similar to apartment buildings.
1150 CE
1500 CE
1800 CE
1150 CE
The Zapotecs lived in this present day country.
Where is Mexico?
This is the name of the tribe that lived closest to us.
Who were the Iroquois?
This is what produced the rich soil of the highlands in Mesoamerica.
What is volcanic ash?
This is the reason the winner of Pok-A-Tok was typically sacrificed.
What is Mayans wanted the sacrifices to impress and please the Gods.
The first people to come to the Americas came between these years:
60,000 - 1000,000 years ago
15,000 - 40,000 years ago
1,000 - 2,000 years ago
When is 15,000 - 40,000 years ago?
What region of North America did the Iroquois live?
Where is the NorthEast?