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Vocabulary The start of the Americas

Mesoamerica Mayas & Incas

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What is a steep hill with a flat, table like, top?

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Mesa

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What is a vast, slow moving sheet of ice?

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Glacier

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What is a large public square in a town or city?

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Plaza

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What is a village of flat-roofed adobe houses that

share adjoining walls and are built in pattern

of steps on many levels?

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Pueblo

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What is a carving that represents

something as a hieroglyph?

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Glyph

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What is another name for corn or a grain native to the Americas?

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Maize

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What do scientists believe formed the Great Lakes?

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Glaciers

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True or False: History shows that the

first humans in America came by foot.

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False

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What group of people are believed to be

the first humans to reach the Americas?

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Hunters from Northern Asia

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What forced the early people of Americas

to slowly change from hunter gathers to

farmers?

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The changes in land

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Where did the Olmec’s originate?

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Mesoamerica

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What three groups make up the class systems in Mesoamerica?

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Warrior KingsNobles

Peasants

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What type of community / government

did the people of Mesoamerica live in?

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City State

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What civilization lasted the longest in Mesoamerica?

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Maya

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What are the 3 great achievements of the Chavin Civilization?

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Farming - cornBuilding Urban centersBuilding Step Pyramids

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Which group civilization was considered the largest Ancient American Empire?

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Incas

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List 3 reasons that the Mayan city of Copan was abandoned?

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Lack of fooddiseasewarfare

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What did the Copan's use in place of money?

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beanssea saltother goods

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True or False: Inca's sacrificed those they defeated?

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False

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What was the Inca civilizations greatest achievement?

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Building road systems

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Where were the Hopewell located?

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Ohio

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Where were the Mississippians located?

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Illinois

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Why did the Anasazi continuously try to improve their housing?

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Harsh climates

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Who was buried in the Hopewell's earthen mounds?

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Nobles

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What helped the Mississippian

civilization to grow?

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Cultivation of crops

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Define an isthmus and give an example of one located in the

Ancient Americas.

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Definition: Narrow Strip of Land

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