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S.S Test
S.S test for the Americas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hunter Gather | Are people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive. |
| Beringia | The green outline indicates the area that was exposed during the last Ice Age, the area now known as Beringia or the Bering Land Bridge. |
| Ice age | An very cold and icy region. |
| Landbridge | A strip of land connecting two continents. |
| Mayan | The Maya were one of the people of the Mesoamerican civilization who were conquered by the Spanish. |
| Aztec | Were people that loved power. They would conquer nearby towns. They would also make human sacrifices. Their most important god was the sun god. |
| Inca | Were excellent road builders. They livid in South America, They built a small tribe in the Andes. Their capital was called Cuzco. |
| Anasazi | Another word for the Pueblo. They lived in the southwest. Did not have private property. They shared everything.Lived in Adobes. |
| Eastern Woodlands | People that lived in the eastern woodlands. They were called the Adena and Hopewell. |
| Mississippians | People who lived in the southeast. A tribe that was along the Mississippi river. |
| W.A.T.C.H.E | stands for Writing, Advanced culture, Technology, Cities, Highly organized society, and Economy. |
| maize | Was a special word for corn. |
| cacao | Chocolate. Or the bean that comes from it to make chocolate. |
| jade | A beautiful hard gemstone. Very important to the different tribes culture. |
| glyphs | A hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph. |
| slash and burn agriculture | was a method for cutting down forests for land for farming. |
| Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
| Tenochtitlan | Was the capital of the Aztecs |
| causeway | raised roads across water or wet ground |
| chinampas | floating gardens of crops. Had soil on top of large rafts, which they anchored to trees that stood in the water. |
| conquistadors | Were Spanish conquerors who took over most of the tribes. |
| Hernan Cortes | was the leader of the Spanish conquerors. Their motives were to find gold, god,glory, and land. |
| centralized authority | Centralized authority means all the power is concentrated into one person or at the federal level. |
| terrace farming | Is good if you live on mountains. They looked like little steps coming out of mountains. |
| Machu Picchu | Was a city in Inca. |
| Quechua | a way how they spoke in Inca. |
| quipu | An ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways. |
| Francisco Pizarro | was a Spanish conquistador. |
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