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100
Term for the land bridge between Asia and the Americas
What is Beringia?
100
The "three sisters"
What is corn, beans, and squash?
100
Term for the system the Inca used for keeping records
What is quipu?
100
Spanish conqueror of the Aztec
Who is Hernan Cortes?
100
Primary reason Europeans defeated Native American empires
What is the spread of disease?
200
Native American group living in the extreme north
What is Inuit?
200
Earliest Native American group known to have lived in Mesoamerica
What is the Olmec?
200
Home region of the Inca civilization
What is Cuzco?
200
Ruler of the Aztec when the Spanish arrived
Who is Montezuma?
200
People group that lived on the northern Yucatan peninsula that went into decline around 1200 ad
What is the Toltec?
300
The Hopewell were famous for this
What is mound building?
300
Name of the serpent feathered god of the Aztec
What is Quetzalcoatl?
300
Earliest known civilization that developed along the Pacific coast in South America
What is the Moche?
300
Leading explorer and colonizer for France in North America
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300
Capital city of the Aztec civilization
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
Major city of the Mississippian culture
What is Cahokia?
400
Approximate number of people controlled by the Aztec Empire
What is 4 million?
400
Language of the Incan Empire
What is Quechua?
400
Economic term for the difference between import values and export values
What is balance of trade?
400
Sacred city of the Inca located deep in the Andes Mountains
What is Machu Picchu?
500
Center of civilization for the Anasazi
What is Chaco Canyon?
500
First major city of Mesoamerica
What is Teotihuacan?
500
Powerful ruler who expanded the Incan Empire
Who is Pachacuti?
500
City location at which Hernan Cortes arrived to conquer the Aztec Empire
What is Veracruz?
500
Tenochtitlan was built in the center of this lake
What is Texcoco?