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Early Americans
first native american tribes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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GoldenCherokee
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