Ancient America

Question 1

Plate tectonics

Answer 1

Movement or separation of earths crust

Question 2

Beringia

Answer 2

Land bridge between Asian Serbia and American Alaska. People migrate to western hemisphere.

Question 3

Paleo Indians

Answer 3

Southern migrants from Serbia, ancestors of Navajo and Apache people. Some lived in White Sands region thousands of years after people who made footprints.

Question 4

Clovis Point

Answer 4

Distinctively shaped spearhead used by Paleo-Indians; named for the place in New, Mexico where it was found. Used to hunt large game.

Question 5

Hunter-gatherer

Answer 5

A way of life that involved hunting game and gathering food from nature.

Question 6

Archaic Indians

Answer 6

Descended from Paleo-Indians; different hunting techniques and presence of gathering tools and hunting tools/traps.

Question 7

Pueblos

Answer 7

“Apartment” buildings, storage spaces and ceremonial centers aka Kivas. Built by ancient Americans in the Southwest around 1000CE.

Question 8

Pueblo Bonito

Answer 8

Largest residential and ceremonial site, had more than 600 rooms and 35 kivas. Can be visited at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

Question 9

Burial Mounds

Answer 9

Earth “dugouts” built by ancient American people throughout the gigantic drainage of the Ohio and Mississippi River after 2500BP

Question 10

Chiefdom

Answer 10

A hierarchy leader/chief
Believed to set commands about the labor that’s required to build burial mounds

Question 11

Cahokia

Answer 11

Largest ceremonial site in ancient North America. Near Mississippi River, hundreds of earthern mounds built by thousands of inhabitants between 800 CE and 1500 CE

Question 12

Mexica

Answer 12

Empire that stretched from coast to coast across Central Mexico encompassing approx six million people

Question 13

Tributes

Answer 13

Goods that included food and luxury items (also candidates for human sacrifice). Mexica collected goods from people they conquered.