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 |