History/ Chapter 1
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- How did farming change the lives of the Nomads?
- It changed their way of life because they had more time to form a government, art, and religion, They also had time to develop communties.
- What brought the early people over?
- Their food... they followed their food in order to live... they hunted.
- artifacts
- things left behind by the early people such as pottery, tools, weapons, baskets, and baskets.
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital
- How did the first people arrive in the Americas?
- They crossed over from Asia to the Americas by a land bridge called Beringia. That is now the Bering Sea and the Bering Strait.
- Cahokia
- lived in Illinois
- nomads
- people that moved from place to place they also depended on hunting for most of their food source
- What did the Mayan and Aztec center their lives around?
- Their Religion.
- What was the discovery that changed the lives of the early Native Americans?
- They learned to plant and raise an early form of corn called maize.
- What are two advantages of living in cliff dwellings?
- They were easy to defend and the offered protection from winter
- carbon dating
- a method that finds out how old an artifact is by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon that reamins in something
- How did horses change the lives of Native Americans?
- They helped the Native Americans in warfare and hunting
- archaeology
- the study of ancients peoples
- terraces
- broad platforms cut into steep slopes so that people could plant crops.
- Beringia
- the land bridge that connected asia and North AMerica
- hieroglyphics
- pictures or symbols that are used to represent words, sounds, or concepts.
- culture
- a way of life of a particular group of people
- quipus
- a system of recording using strings with various colors and lengths, knotted in special patterns
- Ice Ages
- periods of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets
- Aztec empire so strong because....
- of military.. it intimidated other tribes
- migration
- a movement of large people into a new homeland
- federations
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governments that linked different groups
- Mayan calendar??
- it had 365 days, it was create d by the priests, its scheduled harvests, plantings, and religious ceremonies.
- Anasazi- Where did they live?
- In the corners in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
- Tools and weapons... what were they made of?
- stone and wood
- drought
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long periods of little rainfall, during which their crops dried up.
- civilizations
- highly developed societies
- theocracy
- a society ruled by religious leaders
- Tikal
- Mayan capital
- adobe
- sun-dried mud brick
- Pueblo Bonito
- Anasazi Capital
- Who were the last people to cross the land bridge?
- Inuit
- Mound Builders
- lived in Mississippi River Valley
- Cuzco
- Incan capital
- pueblo
- villages
- Hohokam
- people of pressent day Arizona