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Migration to the Americas
Migration to the Americas 2
Cities and Empires
Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
Important People and Places
100
the study of ancient peoples
What is archaeology ?
100
an early form of corn
What is maize?
100

highly developed societies

What is a civilization?

100
a civilization who flourished between 1500BC and 300BC; created large stone monuments and drainage systems
Who were the Olec?
100
the civilization that used a system of dots and lines to represent their number system.
Who were the Maya ?
200
the tools, weapons, baskets, and carvings of early peoples
What is an artifact?
200
a method used to help scientists measure the amount of radioactive carbon in an artifact to determine how old the artifact is
What is carbon dating?
200
a society ruled by religious leaders
What is theocracy ?
200
a civilization who flourished between AD 300 and AD 1100; created a 365 day calendar and used hieroglyphics
Who were the Maya ?
200
the name of the Spanish leader to lead 550 soldiers into Tenoctitlan
Who was Hernan Cortes?
300
a time period that began 100,000 years ago and ended about 12,00 years ago; during which huge ice sheets, or glaciers formed and covered much of Earth
What is the Ice Age ?
300
the land mass that connects modern day Alaska to Siberia
What is the Bering Strait ?
300
a form of writing that uses symbols and pictures to represent things, ideas, and animals
What are hieroglyphics?
300
a civilization of hunters who wandered through central Mexico around 1325.
Who were the Aztec?
300
Name of the Inca emperor in 1438
Who was Pachacuti? (PAH-chah-KOO-tee)
400
a movement of a large number of people into a new homeland
What is migration?
400
the name of the strip of land that once connected Asia to the Americas
What is Beringia?
400
the official language of the entire empire
What is Quechua? (KEH-chuh-wuh)
400
the largest civilization to be formed in the early Americas in AD 1200
Who were the Inca?
400
the capital city of the Inca empire
What was Cuzco?
500
people who moved from place to place
What are nomads?
500
huge mammals that roamed the land before humans . ( 3 possible answers)
What are saber-toothed tigers, the woolly mammoth, or the mastodon?
500
a system of record keeping with string
What is Quipus? (KEE-poos)
500
Name of the largest and greatest city to develop in the Americas
What is Tenoctitlan?
500
the island that the Aztecs founded and used as their home
What is Lake Texcoco?