Early America
Ice Age🧊🧊👶
Mesoamerican Civilizations
Indigenous Peoples1
Indigenous Peoples2
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When did the first people start arriving to the Americas?
38,000 BCE / 40,000 years ago
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What is the Ice Age?
When much of the earth was covered in ice and snow, entire oceans were frozen over
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What is Mesoamerica now known as?
Central America
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What states made up the Four Corners?
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
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What are Totem Poles?
poles created by Northwest Coast Indigenous people by carving and painting representations of ancestor or animal spirits on long pieces of wood
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About how old is The United States?
about 250 years old
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What was the land connecting the northeast tip of Asia and present-day Alaska called?
Bering Land Bridge / Beringia
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Name the 4 Mesoamerican Civilizations
Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
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What is Adobe?
a kind of clay still used for building in the Southwest
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What does haudenosaunee mean?
people of the longhouse
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What are communities of people who move from place to place relying on plants and animals found in the wild for food?
Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers
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What kind of animals were the Americas filled with during the Ice Age?
Woolly Mammoths, Mastodons, and other huge creatures
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What is the phrase to remember the order of the rise and fall of Mesoamerican empires?
Oh My! America's Interesting!
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Name three types of homes that the Ancestral Pueblo people created.
Pit houses, pueblos, cliff dwellings
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What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
An alliance between six Indigenous nations in upstate New York
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What is Migration?
the movement of a number of people, often to establish a new homeland
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What is the Land Bridge Theory?
nomadic hunter-gatherers crossed the land bridge from Asia into North America in search of food
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What is Theocracy?
rule by gods, government where the priests are in charge
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How did the Mound Builders use mounds?
used as temples and tombs
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What was a major factor in the differences between the Indigenous cultures?
where they lived - climate, geography, resources
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What does BCE stand for?
Before the Common Era
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When did the Ice Age end? -or- How long did the Ice Age last?
Around 10,500 BCE / about 100,000 years
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What was the captial city of the Aztecs?
Tenochtitlan
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What was Cahokia?
the largest settlement of the Mississippian people
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Where is Monks Mound?
Collinsville, Illinois