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Who built the largest empire in the Americas?   Inca  
Incan city in the Andes   Machu Pichu  
Who lived in the northeast?   Iriquois  
Had gods for the four directions   maya  
who ate crawfish?   moche  
agriculture began in what year   7000-5000bc  
which civilization appeared to have just walked away?   mayans  
what happened to the loosing team of a mayan game?   they were beheaded for sacrifice  
what type of sacrifice did the aztec offer to their gods?   human  
who built homes into the sides of clifs?   anasazi  
cheyenne lived in:   teepees  
who carved large stone heads to honor their gods?   olmec  
an animal hunted by first americans   buffalo/bison  
found at Clovis, New Mexico   clovis points  
who lived in long houses?   iriquois  
crop grown by people in the andes mountains   potato  
maya calender ends in this year:   2012  
who lived in the southeast of north america   cherokee  
the wondering, flute playing spirit and magician of the anasazi   kokopelli  
civilizations that influenced later civilizations were called:   mother culters  
who made huge drawings in the desert?   nazca  
from where did the mayan rulers give blood to honor their gods?   tounge and privates  
another name for buffalo   bison  
the inca built 14,000 miles of:   roads  
maize is:   corn  
what was hung on the wall of the toltec city?   heads  
who called themselves "the people" and lived in canada?   inuit/eskimo  
who did the aztec mistake for a god?   cortez  
the mayan's capital city   takal  
he became ruler of the aztec in 1502   montezuma  
capital city of the toltec   tula  
built in marshy areas to farm   chinampas  
began as a civilization living off of rats and snakes   aztec  
anasazi called themselves:   the "ancient ones"  
pachacuti had to kill who to become king?   his brother  
early man found in kennewick, washington   kennewick man  
the northwest civilizations relied on fishing for:   food  
name of the land bidge:   bergina  
toltec god of wind and venus   quetzalcoatl  
lived off of sea mammels in alaska   innuit  
they built the largest building in the americas until 1903   maya  
some early americans had their children's ______ reshaped with wooden boards   heads  
most common type of writting in the americas was:   heiroglypics  
the _______ farmed in swampy marsh land   aztec  
who practiced brain and heart surgery?   inca  
the inuit hunted;   walrus, whale, seal, and fish  
one of the first great cities in the americas built by the zapotec   monte alban  
the magical spirit of the anasazi   kokopelli  
city built in the middle of a lake by the aztec   tenochititlan  
the mound that stretches for 1/4 of a mile is:   the great serpant mound  
age at which aztecs would begin school   15  
posible causes of the end of the mayan civilization:   war, food shortages, over population, over farming, king lost power  
capital city for mississippians   cahokia  
who conqured the inca?   fransisco pizarro  


   


 

 

 

 

 
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