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CheyHistoryS1.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the main idea of this chapter? | The main idea is how early humans reached the Americas from Asia. |
| What is the land-bridge theory? | About 10,000 to 100,000 years ago, ice glaciers covered most of the earth. More and more water froze, causing shallow areas of water to become dry land. One area of this stretched between Siberia and Alaska, now narrow waterway the Bering Strait. |
| What is the land-bridge theory? (Cont.) | ppl crossed this bridge 20,000 to 30,000 years ago while hunting prehistoric animals. |
| Why did the hunters begin to change their ways? What did they change? | Large animals began to disappear, so many hunters became gatherers, and wandered from place to place in search of wild plants and small game. |
| What discovery changed life forever? What did it change? | Farming changed life forever. Families did not have to move around in search of food. |
| How did farmers water crops in dry regions? What is this called? What did it also allow farmers to do? | Farmers built channels that reached from rivers and streams to their fields. This is a system called irrigation. It also allowed farmers to raise animals such as cattle, pigs, and llamas. |
| What did a dependable food supply lead to? | A dependable food supply lead to an increment in population and surplus food. |
| What are cities? | Cities are centers of government and religious life. |
| How did the cities come to be? | Native Americans began trading their surplus with one another and some communities grew into cities. |
| What civilization developed in between 250 AD and 900 AD? Where did they build their cities, and what did those cities contain? | The Mayan civilization developed in between 250 AD and 900 AD. They built their cities in present day Mexico and Central America. The cities contained large public plazas with pyramids, temples, ball courts, and palaces |
| What did the Mayans develop? What major achievement did they fufill? What from? What was significant about their stone buildings? | The Mayans developed arts, a system, and a government. They created the most accurate calendar known until modern times from their observations of the stars and studies of the heavens. Carved stories of their pasts and their Gods into stones of buildings. |
| When did the Aztecs appear? | Aztec civilization grew as the Mayans declined. |
| What great capital city did the Aztecs build on the site of present day Mexico City? What was the city built on? How did it connect to the mainlands? How many people lived in the city? | Tenochtitlan, build on a series of islands in a lake. Stone roadways connected the city to the mainlands. 200,000+ people resided in Tenochtitlan. |
| What territories did the Incas occupy? | Incan civilization stretched from down the coast of South America along the Andes, across Atacama Desert, and near Amazon rain forest |
| What was the Incan capital? What was its role? | Cuzco; it linked other cities and towns with a great network of roads. |
| What were some of the structures that Incan engineers built out of huge stones shaped to fit together? | Incan engineers built walls to keep soil in fields, canals for irrigation, and bridges over deep canyons. |
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