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Vocabulary
Meeting People
Fill-In-The-Blank
100
They killed massive preys, woolly mammoths, antelopes, caribous, and bison.
What did the first people hunt?
100
Taught their subjects how to please gods.
What are God-Kings?
100
"Place of the Gods"
What is Teotihuacάn?
100
Built a far-reaching trading empire.
Who were the Olmec?
100
Hunters in the Americas were constantly on the move in search of ______.
Food
200
Ancient region that includes lands stretching from the Valley of Mexico to Costa Rica in Central America
Where is Mesoamerica?
200
Gave them a year-round source of water.
What are swamps and sinkholes?
200
Much of Earth's water froze into huge sheets of ice.
What are glaciers?
200
People who used their central location to reach into what is now Southern Mexico and Central America.
Who were the Mayans?
200
By about 2000 B.C., early Americans had learned the technique of ____________________.
Crossing corn with other grasses to get bigger cobs and more cobs per plant.
300
It began 9,000 to 10,000 years ago.
When did farming began?
300
Claimed to know what the gods wanted.
What are priests?
300
Areas where the Earth has collapsed
What are sinkholes?
300
People who never expanded much beyond their homeland.
Who were the Moche?
300
The Olmec started around 1200 B.C., and lasted about _____ years.
800
400
They crossed this plant to create bigger plants.
What is corn?
400
People who could read hieroglyphics.
What are nobles?
400
Political agreements between people or states to work together.
What are alliances?
400
A king who supplied leadership in Tikal.
Who was Jasaw Chan K'awaiil I?
400
By watching the sky, the priests learned about astronomy and developed a _________.
365-day calendar
500
The civilization that replaced the Moche.
What is Inca?
500
A city where women occasionally served as all-powerful queens.
What is Calakmul?
500
Mayan word for "Flat Region"
What is Petén?
500
A person who had a land bridge named after him and was a famous European explorer.
Who was Vitus Bering?
500
The Mayan civilization ended in the ______.
A.D. 500s