Section 1

Question 0

What were complex early american societies made up of?

Answer 0

Great cities, centers, huge palaces, pyramids, temples, plazas, etc

Question 1

Explain how agriculture brought on the development of complez societies?

Answer 1

Made it possible for people to remain in one place and store surplus food. People began to pick up other skills bc of this.

Question 2

Olmec?

Answer 2

Created a thriving civilization, found in rain forest, gulf pf mexico, massive sculptures. 1200-1400 bc

Question 3

Maya?

Answer 3

Built a dynamic culture in guatelmala & the yucata penninsula between a.d. 250 & 900

Question 4

Aztec?

Answer 4

Swept into the valley of mexico in the 1200s.

Question 5

Inca?

Answer 5

Empire builders who in A.D. 1200 created a glittering empire that stretched nearly 2,500 miles along the mountains western coast of S.A.

Question 6

Hokoham & anasazi?

Answer 6

Introduced crops into the arid deserts of the southwest

Question 7

Adena?

Answer 7

Excelled at trade & building consisted of huge barial mounds filled with objects

Question 8

Hopewell?

Answer 8

Socities excelled at trade & building. Also consisted of burial grounds

Question 9

Mississipian?

Answer 9

Excelled in trade and building. Constructed huge pyramid mounds