Pre-Columbian American Civilizations

Chaco Canyon

Tenochtitlan

exchange of goods, peoples, ideas, and diseases that transformed world history

Three Sister Farming

an ancient Incan device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways

the Incan labor tax, with each family donating time and work to communal projects

wattle and daub houses

Only written language in the western hemisphere

floating gardens consisting of a large barge woven from reeds, filled with dirt and irrigated by lake water

Mother of Mesoamerica

Cahokia

Incan relay runners used to send messages over great distances

power and possessions passed down the female side of the family line.

As the Ice Age ended and sea levels dropped the first Americans crossed this physical feature.

Macchu Picchu

built extensive irrigation canals in the desert

cultivated potatos

perfected the calendar and written language of the Olmec

accounted for the size and sophistication of the Native American civilizations

unwittingly discovered the Americas by sailing west