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Americas before 1492
Societies of the Native Americans before 1492
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What land region connected Asia to Alaska? | Beringia |
| How did these people get to the Americas? | either explorers came by foot or came by the boats. |
| Where was the Agriculture develop in? | Central Mexico |
| How did ancient American cultures change with the introduction of agriculture? | Agriculture made it possible for people to remain in one place and store surplus food. |
| What is nomadic? | moving from place to place in search of food and water. |
| What was the first empire of the Americas emerged as early as 1200 BC in what is now southern Mexico? | The Olmec. |
| Who built a dynamic culture in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula around between 250 AD and 900 AD? | The Maya. |
| Who swept into the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s? | The Aztec. |
| Who were the most prominent of these empire builders in South America around 1400? | The Inca. |
| Where were the Hohokam and the Anasazi introduced the crops into? | The arid deserts of the Southwest (present-day Southwest USA). |
| Which river ran through the Adena, the Hopewell, and the Mississippian culture areas? | Ohio River. |
| What do the cities of Chichen Itza and Tenochtitlan revealed about the cultures that created them? | these cities reveal that the cultures that created them were highly sophistical and organized. |
| Where was the Hohokam settle in the valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers? | what is now central Arizona. |
| What group took to the mesa tops, cliff sides, and canyon bottoms of the Four Corners region-an area where the present day states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico? | The Anazasi. |
| What was the Kwakiutl adapted into the physical setting? | the Ocean; collected shellfish from the beaches and hunted the ocean for whales, sea otters, and seals. |
| Where was the Kwakiutl located in? | Northwest (present day Northwest USA and West Canada. |
| What is the descendants of the Hohokam and Anazasi? | The Pueblo. |
| What was the Pueblo build the multistory houses made of? | Adobe; a brick of clay and straw. |
| Who were The Tribes that lived in the Eastern Woodlands? | The Iroquois. |
| What effect did an elaborate transcontinental trading network have on the ancient Native Americans? | both direct and indirect contact with each other. |
| Why did Native Americans regard the land use that was very important to them? | the source of life; important activities are food gathering and farming. |
| What did the Native Americans believe in? | Almost all native Americans thought of the natural world as filled with the spirits and some of them believed in one supreme being as a creator. |
| What is the Native Americans' basic unit of social organization? | Strong family ties; ensured that the continuation of tribal customs. Elders instructed the youngs and the youngs honored the elders and thier departed ancestors. |
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