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Geography
Early Peoples
Cities & Empires
North American Peoples
Vocabulary
100
What type of maps are used to navigate through a city?
Road map
100
What is the land bridge that connected Asia to North America?
Beringia
100
What is a society ruled by religious leaders?
Theocracy
100
Where did the Anasazi have their homes?
On the side of cliffs, Cliff dwellings
100
What is a sun-dried mud brick
Adobe
200
what type of map is used to show elevation?
Topographical map
200
What was the first crop planted in the Americas?
Maize
200
What was the first ancient civilization?
The Olmec
200
What is the largest cliff dwelling called?
Mesa Verda
200
What is an item, such as a tool, left behind by a culture?
Artifact
300
What is used to find the direction on a map?
Compass rose
300
What were the three big game animals that Asian hunters hunted?
Mammoth, Saber Tooth Tiger, and Mastodon
300
What ancient civilization stretched more than 3000 miles?
The Inca
300
What is the name of the Mississippians largest city?
Cahokia
300
What is a way of life for a particular group of people?
Culture
400
What is on a map that is used to measure distance?
A scale
400
What is used to find the age of an artifact?
Carbon Dating
400
What is the ancient civilization that's capital was Tenochtitlan?
The Aztec
400
Who were the mound builders that made shapes with their mounds?
Hopewell
400
What was the time period of cold temperatures were most of the Earth was covered in ice sheets?
The Ice Age
500
What is a map that shows man made boundaries and borders?
Political map
500
What caused some of the first Americans to settle in one area and grow crops?
Big game animals died off
500
What was the sign that indicated the Aztec had found their home?
An Eagle sitting on a cactus with a snake in is beak
500
What is the name of the five groups that made up the Iroquois Confederacy?
Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk
500
What is the study of ancient peoples?
Archaeology