RANDOM
What type of government did the Mayans have?
city-state
Which civilization lived in South America?
Incas
Both Northeast and Southeast Indians lived in a __________ dwelling.
A- Easily dismantled
B- Permanent of semi-permanent
B- Permanent of semi-permanent
Northeast Indians were isolated and kept all their goods to themselves. T/F
F
DAILY DOUBLE
(TRICKY QUESTION)
What is one thing the incas did that was similar to an ancient civilization, what was the civilization?
The Aztecs developed a _______________System to help them determine seasons.
calendar
One of the greatest cities the Aztecs built was on Mexico City and was called?
Tenochtitlan
What Native American group settled in the center of North America?
plains
What were the two types of houses Northeast Indians lived In? How were they similar? How were they different?
longhouses, wigwams (longhouses are long and narrow, wigwams are huts)
List the 3 major cultural groups of North American Indians
Northeast, Southeast, Plains
Many historians believed how many people lived in North America before the Europeans arrived?
10 million
Clothing for the northeast Indians came from?
animal fur
What cultural group made contact with Europeans first? Why would this be?
Northeast Indians, because of where ships would have landed when sailing from Europe. Southeast would have also made sense.
Iroquoian speaking Indians were members of a league of __________ tribes.
5
Mayan farmers used a slash and burn farming method, describe that to me.
cut down and burn trees to make the soil fertile
Many Northeast Indians depended on the ___________ sisters for food. These were corn, __________, and _______________.
3, beans and squash
List 3 of the five “civilized” tribes of the Southeast Indians
cherokee, Chickasaw, choctaw, creek, seminole
The Inca _______________________ was called Sapa Inca.
Emperor
DAILY DOUBLE
Incas did not have the best geography for growing crops, one thing they did was terrace hills to help. What does this mean?
Why did the Aztecs settle in swampy shore of Texcoco?
other land was already settled
What did the Incas call themselves?
children of the Sun
The Incas kept record by?
tying knots
These 5 Iroquois tribes formed a confederacy known as the ________________________ _________________.
Haudenosaunee league
Mayans “might” be the first culture to map the stars using difficult ____________.
mathematics
The Northeast Indians were split into 2 cultural groups, what were these groups?
Algonquian/Iroquois