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ch. 1
7th grade, The First Americans
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What goes first longitude or latitude? | latitude |
| What are the 5 themes of geography? | location, Place, Regions, Human environment interactions, movement |
| absolute location? | uses coordinates of latitude and longitude |
| Relative location? | describes a place in relation to another place |
| 0* latitude? | equator |
| 90*north latitude? | north pole |
| 90* south latitude | south pole |
| parallels are... | latitude lines |
| meridians are... | longitude lines |
| 0* longitude | prime merdian |
| What is the international dateline? | a non straight although it mostly runs along 180*, it attempts to avoid land because it less confusing |
| place? | the characteristics (physical/cultural) that make every location on earth unique |
| regions? | areas that share something in common (physical/cultural) |
| human environment interactions? | how people change environment change to help them survive and thrive |
| movement? | when people move they also move their ideas and culture |
| carbon dating | scientists measure the amount of radioactive carbon in an artifact that twas once alive |
| nomads | person that moves from place to place |
| theocracy | society governed by religious leaders |
| archaeology | the study of ancient peoples |
| clan | the Iroquois people people were organized into groups of related families |
| Quecha | official language of the Inca empire |
| artifact | tool, weapon, basket, or carving of early peoples |
| pueblo | structure of stone and sun dried built by the Anasazi people |
| hieroglyphics | symbols or pictures that represent things, ideas,and sounds |
| migration | movement of a large number of people into a new land |
| civilizations | high developed societys |
| quipu | various lengths and colors of string used by the Incas to record info |
| maize | an early form of corn |
| federation | government that links different groups |
| terrace | broad platforms |
| culture | a person's or group's way of life |
| the 10 things needed to make a civilization | communication,food, water, regligion, rules/laws,leadership, specialization, protection, Freetime |
| mayan communication? | had a spoken language, had hieroglyphics, kept records called codices, |
| mayan temples | each level went through Mayan history |
| mayan food? | legends say they came from corn, had farming skills,, could feed 20,000+ chewed chicle (first gum) |
| mayan water? | problem for mayans, might have caused a drought |
| mayan religions? | had 1 god (itzamna), they burid dead under homes, servents killed with their leaders, if your child died the mother would cut off her fingertip |
| who are the bird people and why? | the mayoans. their gods were imangined as birds so they wanted to be like them |
| examples of what they did to be bird people | babies= crass eyed, they tattoed body bird colors, tried to make nose beak-like, sharpened teeth |
| mayan leadership? | no government, leaders were kings who gained power in war |
| mayan rules/ laws? | were strict (cut hair short, servent of victim, thrown off a cliff) |
| mayan specilization? | had many jobs |
| mayan protection? | designed cities for protection, kings had army of warriors |
| mayan friendships/ aliances? | no prmenant alliances |
| which civilization had a lot of gold? | the inca |
| inca communication | spoke quecha, had no written language-used special knotted ropes (quipus) to send a message, runners called Chaskis could deliver a message 1,500 miles in a week |
| inca food | buiilt terraces to farm tha mountain terran, meat was alpaca and guinea pig, ate potatoes |
| inca water | built aquaducts so melting snow would flow into settlements |
| inca religion | sunworshipers, leader was the inca (who was a god)last inca was Atahualpa, inca married siblings, had human and animal sacrifices |
| inca leadership | inca choose woman to be his advisors, allowed conqured people to keep their leaders/culture if they followed inca culture |
| inca rules /laws | almost no crime in inca empire, laws were harsh |
| inca specilization | had many differnt jobs |
| inca protection | had both nature protection (lived in Andes Mts.)and a strong army |
| inca alliances | encouraged groups to became alliances, those who refused either attacked or forced to join |
| inca freetime | had accomplishments (Maccu piccu, Brain surgery, stone arches)incas loved music-panpipe, all accomplished with no written language! |
| called themselves "the Mexica" | aztecs |
| aztec communication | spoke/wrote language called Nahuati |
| Where they found an eagle eating a snake on a cactus, which meant they would build a great city there | the aztecs, in tenochtitlan-they built 3 causeways from island to land |
| aztec food | similiar to mayans, bought food at city market,rich drank chocolate- which cocoa beans were used as money! |
| aztec water | used aqueducts (carried 3+ miles)had running water in homes of wealthy- aztecs were very clean, drank wine (tequila) but if you got drunk you would be killed |
| aztes gods/goddesses | Huitzilopochtli-god of war, Quetzalcoatl-the creator god |
| aztec calanders | solar- 365 days, had 5 days of darkness, bad luck days(18 months of 20 days) Religious-240 days every 52 years they started on the same day-if they hadnt sacrificed enough people the world would end(in fire with super charged jaguars |
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lstmartin01
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