migration and Beringia
the movement of people from one place to another
what is migration
Food produced beyond what people immediately need
What is surplus food?
An object made or used by people that helps historian study the past
What is an artifact?
The early civilization developed around the Gulf coast of presenting Mexico
What were the Olmec
The Aztec capital located on an island in Lake, Texcoco
What is TENOCHTITLAN?
The exposed land area once connected Asia in North America
What is the Behringer land Bridge
Farming allows people to create these instead of constantly moving
What are permanent settlement?
Historian compared several sources because one piece of evidence may not reveal this
What is the whole score?
The Maya developed mainly in this type of environment
What is a tropical rainforest region?
Productive, raising farming areas built by the Aztecs in shallow Lake Waters.
What are chinampas
According to the land Bridge theory people traveled from this continent into North America
What is Asia?
Surplus food in Pre settlement allowed this to increase
What is population?
Strong evidence should have this kind of connection to the claim
What is the direct connection?
The Olmec are famous for creating these enormous stone sculptures
What are colossal Stoneheads?
The ink use this method to create flatter farmland on state Mountain slopes.
What is Terrace farming?
Beringia became exposed when this drop during the Ice Age
What is sea level?
Develop as settlement became larger and more organized
What are cities?
Historians can use these stories pass from one generation to another as evidence
What are oral traditions?
Writing, mathematics astronomy, and complex calendars were achievements of this civilization
What were the Maya?
The Aztec built these routes to connect their island capital to the mainland
What are causeways?
A immigration map may suggest possible routes, but it cannot prove these details for every group
What are the exact dates routes or reasons for migration?
Put these developments in order, cities, farming, surplus food, civilization population growth, and permanent settlement
What is farming – surplus food, permanent government population group, cities, civilization
Name two kinds of evidence historians can combine when studying migration
What are archaeology, traditions, geography, and scientific evidence? (any two.)
The Olmec are sometimes called this because they influenced later Mesoamerican civilization
What is the mother culture of Mesoamerica?
Explain how terraces and Rhodes helped the anchor overcome the geography of the Andes
What are terraces that provide flatter farmland and roads that connect mountain communities?