Mayan Civilization
Between 250 AD and 900 AD, the Mayans built cities in what is now ______ and Central America.
What is Mexico?
Arrived in present-day ______ in the 13th century.
What is Mexico?
The largest empire in South America in ______.
What is the 1400s?
There is evidence of people being in America as far back as ________ years ago.
What is 40,000?
What are a few of the stories of how Native Americans came to America?
They came from the ground, caves, or springs.
These cities had large public plazas lined with _______, temples, ball courts, and palaces.
What are pyramids?
Built a great capital city, __________, where Mexico City is today. It was built on a series of islands in a large lake that was connected to the mainland by stone roadways. More than ________ lived there at its height.
What is Tenochtitlan?
What are 200,000 people?
Their empire stretched down the coast of ________, along the Andes, across the Atacama Desert all the way to the Amazon Rainforest.
What is South America?
Why is the land bridge theory doubted?
People would've had to travel over 50 million square miles of ice.
What did early people eat?
Salmon, seaweed, deer, and rabbit. They occasionally ate mammoth.
They developed arts, a system of government, _______, and a written language (root of more than 20 languages)
What is astrology?
Farmers grew ______ (corn, beans, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, and avocados) on floating platforms. They had a sophisticated system of ________ including advanced irrigation methods.
What are crops?
What is agriculture?
Their capital, ______, was at the center of the empire. It was linked to other cities and towns by a network of roads.
What is Cuzzo?
Why does the Costal Route theory make sense?
If you keep following the coast, you'd get to Washington and Oregon. The entire coast is a kelp highway so, it's rich in soil and crops.
States that early animals and people traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that was exposed during the Ice Age.
Land bridge theory.
They created the most accurate _______ known until modern times.
What is a calendar?
Aztecs also supported themselves through _______ and hunting animals such as rabbits, armadillos, snakes, coyotes, and wild turkeys.
What is fishing?
They constructed buildings by fitting together huge ________, built walls to hold soil in their fields, canals to carry water, and bridges over deep canyons.
What are stones?
Really flat spear points made about 13,300 years ago.
What are Clovis Weapons?
is based on the idea that the first people to inhabit North America traveled by boat down the Pacific coast
Coastal Route theory
Mayans began abandoning their cities around ______. No one knows why, but historians speculate it was due to ________ or overpopulation.
What is 900?
What is disease?
________ dominated Aztec life, and many temples honoring Aztec gods stood in the center of the city.
What is religion?
They produced fine weavings and ______.
What is metalwork?
What evidence is there that suggests people crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
There are weapons similar to Clovis Weapons found in Spain and France.