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Possible ice or land bridge that may have facilitated crossing from Asia via the Bering straight
What is Beringia?
Group of Southwest Indian tribes who lived in small villages or caves and ledges of canyons.
What are the Pueblo Indians?
Indian culture that broadly covered the central Mississippi River Valley, and extended to the Ohio River Valley and southern parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
What are the Mississippians?
Believed by the Mayans to have supported the sky.
What is the Cieba Tree?
several families sharing common ancestors.
What are tribes?
North American Indians known for their large burial mounds and effigy mounds.
What are Mound Builders?
American Indians civilization that developed in the Southeast and along the Atlantic Coast into the Northeast.
Who are the Eastern Woodland Indians?
Famous city of the Aztecs known as "The Venice of the New World". present day Mexico city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
group of Indian languages that are believed to have a single ancestral language.
What are the language families?
Famous effigy mound.
What is the Great Serpant Mound?
An upright stone slab or column carved with inscriptions.(Mayans)
What is a stele?
Collection of knotted strings used for accounting and recording data.
What are Quipu(Khipu)?
areas in which several tribes lived near each other and shared similar customs, means of livelihood, and level of civilization.
What are culture areas?
Group of Indians who were mound builders and lived in dome-shaped structures.
Who were the Adena?
Two Mayan cities that became the center of power and influence.
What were Takil and Chichen Itza?
Indian alliance composed of Aztecs and the city states of Texcoco and Tlacopan.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Indian tribe in Southwest known for its peaceful culture.
What is the Hopi Tribe?
A dispersed group of related Indian populations that were probably united by a network of trade routes.
What are the Hopewell?
Name for precise calendar developed by the Mayans.
What is the Long Count Calendar?
"feathered serpant". God worshipped by Toltects.