MY FINAL.

Question 1

Between what years was Asia, Europe, and North America covered in sheets of ice?
(Some as high as 2 miles)

Answer 1

Between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago.

Question 2

How cold was it during the ice age?

Answer 2

About 20 degrees colder than it is today.

Question 3

During the last ice age, which two continents were connected by a big land bridge?

Answer 3

Asia and North America

Question 4

common animal species during the ice age?

Answer 4

Giant Sloth, Great American lion,
Woolly Mammoth, Steppe bison, scimitar cat, caribou, muskox, giant beavers, and camels.

Question 5

Why did hunters follow animals across the land?

Answer 5

To hunt them

Question 6

What parts of the animal did the hunters use?

Answer 6

Every bit was used.

Question 7

What did the hunters do, that made the animals disappear?

Answer 7

Hunted them to extinction.

Question 8

What happened to the land bridge between Asia and North America?

Answer 8

Temperatures gradually got warmer, and melted ice closed the land bridge

Question 9

Approximately, when was the last ice age?

Answer 9

About 21,000 years ago.

Question 10

How far south did the glaciers reach in North America? What was the line of latitude?

Answer 10

37 degrees north.

Question 11

What ended the last ice age?

Answer 11

Earth’s orientation toward the sun had shifted, causing the ice glaciers to melt. This exposed more land and decreased sea levels.

Question 12

Explain what happened to the Bering Land Bridge

Answer 12

The land around it decreased as water took over. The ice had melted, so it was spreading in many areas. The land bridge was soon flooded, and decomposed into nothing.

Question 13

Name the 6 Native American Tribes.

Answer 13

Anazasi,
Iroquois, (aka Haudenosaunee)
Olmec
Aztecs
Incas
Maya

Question 14

Info about the Anazasi

Answer 14

lived in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States- Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico.

Built Pueblos which were above ground houses they stacked on top of each other, the most famous being Cliff Palace.

By 1300 AD/CE they moved away and ceased to exist as a society.

Question 15

Info about Iroquois (aka Haudenosaunee)

Answer 15

Lived in the Northeastern part of the United States, mainly in New York.

Longhouses were built to house up to 8-10 families.

Consisted of 5 tribes:
Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk.  

These 5 tribes formed the League of Five Nations. This agreement for peace made the Iroquois one of the most powerful Nations in North America.

Question 16

Info about Olmec?

Answer 16

Lived in present day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras along the Gulf Coast. 1200 B.C- 400 B.C. Built stone monuments, roads and temples. Farmers.

Question 17

Info about Aztecs?

Answer 17

Lived in Mexico 1300-1521 AD. Built Temples, Capital was Tenochtitlan ( present day Mexico City) Practiced human sacrifice. Had a writing system using pictographs…had a strong army and created a huge empire.

Question 18

Info about Incas?

Answer 18

Lived in western highlands of South America. They lived between 1200 AD-1532 AD.
Known for strong Gov’t, Strong Army/Empire, as well as building 10,000 miles of stone paved roads. Practiced human sacrifice.

Question 19

Info about Mayas?

Answer 19

Lived in Guatemala,Mexico, Honduras, Belize. 1,000 BC-900 AD.
Known for farming Maize (early corn) Lived in small villages.
Trade, built pyramids and stone temples. Strong Army, Calendars.
Human sacrifice.

Question 20

What would make it tough to live in the American four corner?

Answer 20

The environment is dry, almost like a desert. They were also going through a crisis.

Question 21

What were kivas used for?

Answer 21

Kivas were large underground rooms that you could enter in from the roof with a ladder. It’s used for religion and secret ceremonies

Question 22

What set of structures (50 rooms) were built by the Anazasi between the 12th and 13th centuries? Their most famous structure?

Answer 22

The Pueblo Monito

Question 23

What did the Anazasi leave behind to show modern humans how they lived?

Answer 23

Drawings and structures.

Question 24

Why did the first Americans continue to travel South after crossing the land bridge?

Answer 24

Resources, more trade, warmer climate.

Question 25

Where did the Mayan culture develop?

Answer 25

Mexico, the Northwest, and central America.

Question 26

What resources did the Mayans have a lot of?

Answer 26

Fish, jade, and obsidian

Question 27

What made trade easier for the Mayans?

Answer 27

Pottery

Question 28

What achievments did the Mayans claim, and why did their civilization collapse?

Answer 28

One of the largest structures, La Danta was made by them, and their civilization collapsed due to overpopulation and volcanic explosions.

Question 29

When the Aztecs first met the Spanish, what did the Aztecs think they were?

Answer 29

Slaves

Question 30

Why might the translator that helped the Spanish understand the Aztec language want to see the Aztec defeated?

Answer 30

The translator probably didn’t like them because they were a bigger group, almost a threat

Question 31

What gifts did the Aztecs give to Cortez?

Answer 31

The Aztecs give to Cortez flowers, necklaces, and wreaths around their heads.

Question 32

What are the middle ages also known as?

Answer 32

“I like to play in the fiflth and dirt” age

Question 33

Who were the Crusades?

Answer 33

their goal was to free the Holy lands of the Christians from the Muslims.

Question 34

When did the black plague start?

Answer 34

The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. There were dead soldiers everywhere on a boat, and they spread a disease.

Question 35

What were symptoms of the black plague?

Answer 35

Swellings on armpits or on groins (blood and pus seeping out) fever, chills, diarrhea, aches, and death.

Question 36

How easily could the black plague spread?

Answer 36

Even the touch of clothing could spread the disease.

Question 37

How do you treat the black plague?

Answer 37

bloodletting and boil-lancing (practices that were dangerous as well as unsanitary) and superstitious practices such as burning aromatic herbs and bathing in rosewater or vinegar.