Chapter 1 The First Americans 2017-18

In which of these groups did women play a strong role in the government?

Where do many archaeologists believe the earliest Americans came from?

Which of these was a way the Maya used their temples?

A person who moves from place to place

Which of these was a land bridge from another continent to North America?

Which of these is a type of corn?

According to the map, farming by Native Americans was most prevalent in which region?

a building

Which two landmasses were once connected by Beringia?

a narrow passage of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water

How did the Iroquois peoples promote peace?

Which of these causes belongs in the blank in the chart?

Which was the largest of the early American civilizations?

Which of these resulted from the Maya's study of astronomy?

Based on the chart, which regions were home to nomadic Native American groups?

What is a society run by religious leaders called?

Who built huge burial mounds in what is today the Ohio Valley?

A scientific way to determine the age of an artifact

Why did ancient people probably first come to the Americas?

an object left behind by early peoples

Growth of agriculture led to which of these developments?

the movement of a large number of people to a new area

group of related families

Which of these helped nomadic peoples settle and farm?

the study of the material remains of ancient peoples

According to the map, which group was predominant in the present-day Carolinas?

Based on the chart, Native Americans who depended on caribou for food also