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36 Cards in this Set
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How did farming change the lives of the Nomads?
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It changed their way of life because they had more time to form a government, art, and religion, They also had time to develop communties.
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What brought the early people over?
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Their food... they followed their food in order to live... they hunted.
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artifacts
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things left behind by the early people such as pottery, tools, weapons, baskets, and baskets.
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Tenochtitlan
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Aztec capital
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How did the first people arrive in the Americas?
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They crossed over from Asia to the Americas by a land bridge called Beringia. That is now the Bering Sea and the Bering Strait.
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Cahokia
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lived in Illinois
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nomads
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people that moved from place to place they also depended on hunting for most of their food source
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What did the Mayan and Aztec center their lives around?
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Their Religion.
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What was the discovery that changed the lives of the early Native Americans?
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They learned to plant and raise an early form of corn called maize.
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What are two advantages of living in cliff dwellings?
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They were easy to defend and the offered protection from winter
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carbon dating
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a method that finds out how old an artifact is by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon that reamins in something
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How did horses change the lives of Native Americans?
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They helped the Native Americans in warfare and hunting
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archaeology
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the study of ancients peoples
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terraces
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broad platforms cut into steep slopes so that people could plant crops.
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Beringia
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the land bridge that connected asia and North AMerica
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hieroglyphics
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pictures or symbols that are used to represent words, sounds, or concepts.
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culture
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a way of life of a particular group of people
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quipus
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a system of recording using strings with various colors and lengths, knotted in special patterns
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Ice Ages
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periods of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets
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Aztec empire so strong because....
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of military.. it intimidated other tribes
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migration
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a movement of large people into a new homeland
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federations
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governments that linked different groups
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Mayan calendar??
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it had 365 days, it was create d by the priests, its scheduled harvests, plantings, and religious ceremonies.
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Anasazi- Where did they live?
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In the corners in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Tools and weapons... what were they made of?
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stone and wood
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drought
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long periods of little rainfall, during which their crops dried up.
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civilizations
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highly developed societies
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theocracy
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a society ruled by religious leaders
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Tikal
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Mayan capital
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adobe
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sun-dried mud brick
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Pueblo Bonito
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Anasazi Capital
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Who were the last people to cross the land bridge?
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Inuit
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Mound Builders
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lived in Mississippi River Valley
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Cuzco
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Incan capital
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pueblo
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villages
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Hohokam
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people of pressent day Arizona
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