APUSH 1.2 vocab

Question 1

land bridge

Answer 1

• What migrants from Asia crossed to get to Siberia.
• It allowed migration to occur up to 40,000 years ago.

Question 2

mayans

Answer 2

• Between the years 300 and 800, these native people built remarkable cities in the rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula).
• These were native people that resided in Central and South America who created highly developed civilizations.

Question 3

aztecs

Answer 3

• These people were from Central America after the year 800.
• After the decline of the Mayas, the Aztecs from central Mexico developed a powerful empire.

Question 4

incas

Answer 4

• These people were in Western South America during the time of the Aztecs.
• While the Aztecs dominated Mexico and Central America, the Incas, based in Peru, developed a vast empire in western South America.

Question 5

corn (maize)

Answer 5

• Food around during the Aztecs and Mayas.
• This was the stable food supply that the Mayas and Aztecs cultivated.

Question 6

longhouses

Answer 6

• Houses that were extremely long in length.
• When northeast settlers moved to New York, their culture combined hunting and farming. However, their farming techniques exhausted the soil quickly, so people had to move to fresh land frequently. So families would move into longhouses.

Question 7

iroquois confederation

Answer 7

• Formed by several tribes living near great lakes and in New York .
• This was a powerful political union that was also called the Iroquois Confederation; this powerful union battled rival American Indians as well as europeans.

Question 8

woodland mound builders

Answer 8

• In the area from New Jersey south to Florida lived the people of the coastal plains such as the Cherokee and Lumbee. Many were descendants of the woodland mound builders.
• These people built timber and bark lodgings along rivers. The rivers and Atlantic ocean provided a rich source of food.