People
Native American
Maya, Aztec, Inca
Places
Native American Vocab
Maya Aztec Inca Vocab
Events
100

Located in regions such as Alaska, Canada and parts of the southwest they lived in teepees and/or wickiups

Who are the Apache

100

Amount of Native Americans in the US prior to European colonization vs current percentage of population

Pre-Columbian Population: 10 million 

Current Population: less than 1.01% of U.S. population

100

3 Things the Maya and Inca have in common

End in A, 4 letter word, not the Aztecs...

100

What was the name of the land bridge between Asia & Alaska in ancient times?

Beringia.

100

Colonists called it "God's plan" for them to take land from the Native Americans as they believed they were destined to expand across North America

What is Manifest Destiny

100

small groups

What are calpullis

100

The term for the people who helped the United States marines in almost every military assault undertaken in the pacific throughout the WWII with a code based on Native American language.

What are Code Talkers

200

He conquered the Aztecs.

Hernan Cortes.

200

inhabited the Southern Appalachian Mountains, sided with the British

Who are the Cherokee?

200

3 Things the Aztecs, Inca, and May all have in common

polytheistic, temples, basic hierarchies, all farm, all sacrificed something, all disappeared around the same time

200

What do we call the region where the Aztec & Maya, lived?

Mesoamerica.

200

a sled that could be filled with items and then dragged by a dog or horse

What is a travois

200

paid" government in labor called

What is Mita

200

is a term that is used today that was thought to be created by Apache when they ended things with the Spanish

What is Bury the Hatchet

300

He conquered the Inca.

Francisco Pizarro.

300

Name three parts of the buffalo and one use for each part.

  • Horns - arrows, cups, and spoons
  • Fat - cooking, hair grease, soap
  • Fur - clothes, stuffing, mittens
  • Tanned hide - bags, blankets, clothes, toys, saddles
  • Rawhide - bags, belts, lashings, shields
  • Tail - ornament, whips, fly swats
  • Bladder - food bag
  • Tendons - bowstring of an arrow, thread
  • Dung - fuel and to smoke
  • Bones – arrows, dice, jewelry, knives, needles, shovels, tools
  • Gall – to make paint
  • Liver - food
  • Intensities - buckets, cooking pots
  • Hooves – glue, toys, tools
  • Tongue - hairbrush, sometimes eaten raw
  • Brain - tanning the hides
  • Skull – used in religious ceremonies
  • Heart - cut from the body and left on the ground as a sign of respect
300

3 Things the Maya and Aztecs have in common

Mesoamerica, owned slaves, human sacrifice, calendars, astronomy, trading, marketplaces

300

What did the Aztec call their capital city?

Tenochititan.

300

the codified system of unified governance between the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga and eventually the Tuscarora people.

What is the Great Law of Peace

300

floating gardens used by farmers to grow crops

What are chinampas

300

Formal policy moving Native Americans west of the Mississippi aggressively implemented by president Andrew Jackson

 Indian Removal Act of 1830

400

He was a famous emperor of the Aztecs 

Montezuma I

400

The principle values of most Native American Tribes

Respect, Generosity, Kinship, Extended Family

400

3 things the Aztecs and Inca have in common

Empires, used solid stone, built bridges, killed of by the spanish, real close in time, crafty/produce things

400

the capital city of the Incas

What is Cuzco

400

The belief that all things on earth are part of a bigger, divine cause

Pantheism

400

the Inca Sun god, who created the first Inca

Inti

400

 Around 9,000 Navajo were forced by soldiers on a march from Arizona to New Mexico on a 450 mile trek. The relocation was poorly planned and unsuccessful. Hundreds of Navajo died. Four years later the Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland.

What is The Long Walk of the Navajo to Bosque de Redondo at Fort Sumner

500

Tell me the essence of the story "The Princess in the Mist"

A peace-loving- chieftain, White Bear, of the Ojibway encampment, learned the Sioux (Dakota) were about to destroy his tribe. Too old to go to battle himself, the old chief's distress led his daughter, Princess Green Mantle, to devise a plan.

The Princess paddled her canoe up the Kaministiquia, to a point well above the waterfall. She Walked boldly into the camp of her enemies and at once they captured her and planned to put her to death. Pretending to be lost and frightened, she bargained with them to spare her life in return for leading them to her father's camp.


The Sioux (Dakota) agreed and the following morning the young princess was placed in the lead canoe and the great band of Sioux (Dakota), with their canoes tied together, set out for the Ojibway camp. Green Mantle did not tell them of the falls, and as they swiftly turned the bend of the river, they plunged into the great gorge. Along with the Sioux (Dakota) warriors, the Princess lost her life, but her tribe was spared the torture of the most feared of all the tribes. The Great Manitou looked kindly upon the brave deed of the Princess.

500

What was the name of the confederation or league that was formed by 5 tribes (later a 6th). The similarity between their federal-style government and our current one is uncanny.

Who are The Iroquois 

500

Name the 3 civilizations and their Farming techniques

Maya -Slash and Burn

Aztec - chinampas

Inca- Terrace Farming

500

One of the darkest and saddest times in American History, it is the relocation of several Native American tribes to Oklahoma territory (some 15,000 people) where they marched thousands of miles and thousands died.

What is the trail of Tears

500

the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group.

What is Cultural Assimilation

500

Incas official language.  It was not written language, only spoken

What is Quechua

500

Each way the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations declined

Maya disappeared

Inca conquered by spanish

Aztec conquered by spanish