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Iroquois
questions and answers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did the people, known as Indians, first arrive in the Americas? | 50,000 B.C. |
| Where did they come from? | Asia |
| What route did they use to reach the Americas? | They crossed the land bridge over the Bering strait |
| In time these people developed the most important crop in American history, what was it? | Corn |
| Other things they had learned how to cultivate are | Squash, beans, potatoes, tomatoes |
| Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Peru? | Inca |
| Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Yucatan Peninsula? | Maya |
| Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Central Mexico? | Aztec |
| What word means the history of the Americas before 1492? | Pre-Columbian |
| Experts who study the remains of vanished civilizations are ______________________. | Archeologist |
| The study of cultures of people, past, and present is ______________________. | Anthropology |
| Physicists can determine the age of items by using a method involving the rate of radioactivity of __________________. | Carbon 14 |
| The Aztecs built their capital of Tenochtitlan where the modern city of ______________ is located. It was larger than ____________ in 1450 | Mexico London |
| The Aztecs practiced ____________ ___________ which made them hated and feared. | Human Sacerfices |
| In 1521, the Aztecs were invaded and defeated by a Spanish conqueror, ____________. | Cortez |
| The ____________ in Peru had a huge empire of over ____________ people and over _________ miles in length. | Incas 6,000,000 2,000 |
| Forced labor was used to build _________ over the ____________ Mountains that are still used today. | Roads Andes |
| The Inca were conquered by _______________ in 1531. | Francisco Pizarro |
| At the time of the arrival of Columbus in 1492, how many Indians lived north of the Rio Grande? ____________ How many languages were spoken? ________ | 1,0000,000+ 200+ |
| One of the Eastern Woodland tribes were the Algonquians. They built walls of logs around their villages to protect themselves from their fierce enemies the _______________. | Iroquois |
| These Indians formed a powerful origination called ________________________________________ ______________________________________________. | Confederacy of the Five Nations |
| The members of the organization were ____________ ______________ ________________ ______________. | Seneca Cayuga Onondagas Oneida Mohawk |
| The sixth nation to join this organization at a later date was the _________________. | Tuscarora |
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jules wickenhiser
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