The First Americans
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- early civilizations
- Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
- theocracy
- society ruled by religious leaders
- earthen homes
- western peoples
- culture
- a way of life for a particular group of people
- Tenochtitlan
- greatest Aztec city
- Beringia
- land bridge lying underneath Bering strait connecting Asia and North America
- nomads
- people who moved from place to place
- Olmec
- located Gulf Coast of Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras, stone monuments, farmers
- southwestern peoples
- Hopi, Acoma, Zuni, Apache, Navajo
- maize
- early form of corn
- eastern peoples
- Iroquois, Cherokee
- Machu Picchu
- religious center of Inca
- Maya
- located Mexico/Guatemala/Honduras/Belize, pyramids, astronomy
- adobe homes
- southern peoples
- mound builders
- Adena, Hopewell
- early Native Americans
- Hohokam, Anasazi
- early american foods
- seeds, nuts, grains, berries
- Tikal
- largest Mayan city, now Guatemala
- southeastern peoples
- Creek, Chickasaw
- plains peoples
- Dakota,
- archeology
- study of ancient peoples
- artifacts
- things left behind by early people
- small game animals
- deer, birds, rodents
- Inuit
- people who settled in the northernmost part of North America
- Mayan government
- religious leaders
- Inca
- located Northern Argentina/Chile/Peru, stone walls and roads, captured by Spanish
- hogans
- southwestern peoples
- terraces
- broad platforms cut into land
- teepees
- plains peoples
- pueblos
- great stone dwellings
- migration
- movement of a large number of people into a new homeland
- Aztec government
- military leaders
- Aztec
- located Central Mexico, war-like, captured by Spanish, sun god
- northwestern coast peoples
- Tlingit, Haida, Chinook, Nez Perce, Yakima, Pomo, Ute, Shoshone
- large game animals
- woolly mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed tiger
- Ice Ages
- periods of extremely cold temperatures
- Cuzco
- Inca capital city
- civilizations
- highly developed societies
- carbon dating
- method to find out how old an artifact is