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Lesson 1 The First Americans
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What did Native Americans say about where they lived?
Where did prehistoric hunters come from?
When did prehistoric hunters come to America?
Which state did prehistoric hunters arrive when they came to America?
Who was considered to be among the first people to settle in the region called the Americas?
What is the region that the first people to settle in called?
The descendants of the first people who settled in Americas are called _______________________
What did Native American groups adopt over the centuries?
What was the Native American group's way of life based on?
The Americas stretch _________________
The Americas stretch north to south nearly ______________________
Where do the Americas start to stretch?
Where does the Americas reach (end)?
What is Tierra del Fuego?
Which coast is Tierra del Fuego located?
Which continent is Tierra del Fuego located on?
The Americas are separated from ________________
What is Afroeurasia?
What is the Americas separated by (from Afroeurasia)?
What happened to Afroeurasia and the Americas after 15000 BCE?
What caused the Americas and Afroeurasia to develop different ecosystems?
What are the four geographical areas of the Americas?
Which of these areas take up most of America?
What is Central America?
What is the area east of Central America?
The Caribbean islands spread across to ________________________
What can you find with the vast expanse if the Americas?
What direction does North America lies to the Equator?
What other areas are also north of the Equator?
Which direction does South America lie of the Equator?
What is the climate of North America?
What is the climate of Central America, the Carribean Islands and South America?
What grows in Central America, Caribbean Islands and South America?
What extends nearly the entire length of the Americas in the west?
What separates coastal plains near the Pacific Ocean from broad eastern plains that sweep toward?
Where are the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coastal ranges located?
Where is the Appalachian mountain located?
Which of the following mountain ranges runs near the Atlantic coast?
The Appalachians are lower than the _______________________
Which of the following mountains are the largest in the world?
Which mountain stretch along the Pacific coast of South America?
What lies between the mountain chains?
What are plateaus?
North America has many ________________________
What is the rolling grasslands of central North America?
Where is the Great Plains?
The Great Plains have fertile soil for _______________________
Where is the tropical Amazon Basin?
How many miles does the Tropical Amazon Basin cover?
What is the largest rain forest in the world?
Where are lowland plains located near the Amazon Basin?
Where do tropical grasslands stretch across?
Where does Pampas mountains lie?
What type of climate does Pampas have?
What does the mild climate of the Pampas good for?
What drains the Americas?
Where do large river systems begin?
Where do large river systems flow?
Several great rivers have enabled ______________________
Which of the following great rivers allowed people to communicate with each other?
Many waterways of the Americas today allowed people to do ___________________
What is the largest river system in North America?
How many miles does the Mississippi flow?
The Mississippi river flows _____________________________________________________
The Mississippi river is the major waterway for the _______________________
What is the largest water system in South America?
Where does the Amazon river start?
Where does the Amazon river end?
How many miles does the Amazon river flow?
Which river carries the highest volume of water on earth?
What is North America's place in terms of the largest continent?
North America is mostly surrounded by ______________
How much total land area do mountain ranges take up ?
How did people reach the Americas according to some scientists?
What revealed that the first Americans were hunters following herds of animals?
How do other scientists think people reached the Americas?
The first Americans arrived to the Americas by boat by
The first Americans who traveled by boat first explored ____________________
What did the first Americans do after exploring the Pacific coast?
What did the Americans do once they arrived to the Americas?
Where did the first Americans move when they arrived in the Americas?
How did the first Americans travel to the Caribbean islands?
In time, there were people living in different group in the _________________________________________
How did the first Americans survived according to historians?
What did the first Americans do to find food?
In which direction did prehistoric people migrated through the Americas over thousands of years?
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of ______________________________
What shows that archaeologists have unearthed evidence of early American ways of life?
What did hunter-gatherers in the Americas used natural resources?
What did people living along seacoasts collected ___________________
What did the people who lived inland do?
Early Americans hunting large animals provided them _______________________
What was not there at the time of the early Americans?
What happened as the last Ice Age ended?
People in the Americas learned to ___________________________________
What activity became the start of farming the Americas?
Where did farming begin after 3000 BCE?
What does Meso mean?
Mesoamerica includes land stretching _________________________
The geography of Mesoamerica was suited for ____________
What was the geography/climate of Mesoamerica?
What types of crops did the first Americans grow?
What crop took longer to develop?
What became the most important food in Americas?
What helped early Americans form more complex socities?
Where did the first American cultures emerge?
How is the first American civilizations unique from other civilizations?
Who built the oldest culture in Mesoamerica?
Based on farming and trade, how long did the Olmec last for?
Mesoamerican societies developed in ____________________________
What did the Olmec do as the populaion grew?
Where did the Olmec set up their farms?
What did the Olmec do?
What did the Olmec exchange salt and beans for?
What did Olmec artisans used the jade for?
What did the Olmec make with the obsidian?
What did the Olmec create centers for?
What did the Olmec build in the areas of religious ceremonies?
What happened in about 400 BCE?
Who rose to power in central Mexico when the Olmec collapsed?
What did the group in central Mexico do?
What does Teotihuacan mean?
What is the time period of Teotihuacan?
About how many people lived in Teotihuacan?
What led to the Pyramid of the Sun?
Who built farms and cities in south central Mexico?
What did the Zapotec build?
Where did the Zapotec build farms and cities?
What is the capital of Zapotec?
What was Monte Alban believed to be?
What did Monte Alban have?
What was Monte Alban surrounded by?
In addition to farming, what else did the Zapotec do?
What did the Zapotec develop a writing system based on?
Where did the Maya prosper in?
What did the Maya do similar to the Zapotec?
Where did the Maya spread into from their central location?
What 2 areas flourished between 300s CE & 500s CE?
What is a possible reason Teotihuacan and Zapotec declined?
What happened to Teotihuacan and Zapotec after they declined?
Who rose to power after the collapse of the cities?
Where did the Toltec rise to power?
What did the warlike Toltec conquer?
What was the time period of the Toltec's power?
What did the Toltec grow?
Where did the Toltec grow their crops?
What did the Toltec build?
What did Toltec artisans introduce?
Where did Toltec artisans introduce metalworking?
What happened to the Toltec Empire around 1125 CE?
What happened to the Toltec empire within a few decades?
What happened after the Toltec Empire declined?
In South America, several different early civilizations __________________________
What happened in about 900 BCE?
Where did the Chavin develop a civilization?
Who connected the Chavin people?
What did the Chavin people build?
Part of a ceremonial center, the temple was surrounded by _________________________________
What happened around 200 BCE?
What developed around 100 CE?
Where did the Moche develop?
What did the Moche build?
Why did the Moche build canals?
What is much about Moche culture known from?
What did the Chavin and the Moche not do despite everything they achieved?
What is the first empire in South America?
What happened north of Mesoamerica?
What did many of the groups north of Mesoamerica learn despite their cultural differences?
Where did farming spread to?
What happened as farming developed in north America
The scorching desert (present-day Arizona) was home to ____________
What did the Hohokam plant between the Salt and Gila rivers in about 300 CE?
Why did Hohokam dig hundreds of miles of irrigation canals?
What did the Hohokam grow?
What did the Hohokam make?
What other group lived with the Hohokam?
Where did the Anasazi settle in?
What did the Anasazi practice, similar to the Hohokam?
What did the Anasazi do to water their crops?
What did the Anasazi build?
What did the Spanish explorers call large stone dwellings later?
What did Cliff dwellings provide?
What happened the Anasazi and the Hohokam until the early 1000s CE?
What happened to Anasazi and the Hohokam when they faced droughts that killed their crops?
What developed East of the Mississippi River?
What was the time for period of the civilization East of the Mississippi River?
The founders of the civilization East of the Mississippi river ___________________________________________________________
The construction of tombs and ceremonies of mounds of earth gave them the name of _______________
Even though the Mound Builders were mostly hunters and gatherers _____________________
The Mound Builders were mostly ___________________
What two cultures made up the Mound Builders?
What did the Mound Builders do according to scientists?
What type of wild plants did the Mound Builders domesticate?
What became another popular crop after it was introduced to the region?
What did the Anasazi skilled at?
By 700 CE a new people known as the ____________________ arose
Where did the Mississippians get their name from?
What did the Mississippians were able to produce to become full-time famers?
What did the Mississippians build?
Where did Mississippians live?
What was the largest city of Mississippians
How many residents did Cahokia have?
Where was the Mississippian government located at?
What was the time period the Mississippian government being at Cahokia?
What was Cahokia?
What happened to Cahokia and Mississippian society during the 1200s CE?