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| Iroquois house about 150 to 200 feet long built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark and housing about a dozen families |
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| a group of related families |
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| a circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles |
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| a multistoried structure of the Anasazi that could house up to 250 people |
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| the name used for areas of Mexico and Central America that were civlized before the arrival of the Sapanish |
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| a picture or symbol used in a hieroglyphic system of writing |
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| goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors |
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| a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records |
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| native Americans who settled alson the coasts of the tundra region of the Artic and northwest. Build igloos |
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| Native Americans appeared in the Eastern Woodlands. Mound Builders.Built elaborate earth mounds used as tombs or for religious ceremonies |
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| Eastern Woodland Native Americans. Clans lived together in longhouses.Grew the "3 sisters" and hunted. Created Iroquois Grand Council and Iroguis League. |
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| Native Americans lived west of the Mississippi River basin in the Great Plains. Hunters and lived in tepees. |
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| Native Americans lived in the southwest (Utah,New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado). Built pueblos made of adobe and farmed. |
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| First known civilization in Mesoamerica. Farmers. Carved large stone heads to represent their gods. |
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| Civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula flourished between A.D. 300 and 900. Cities were built around a central temple. |
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| Warlike people who lived northwest of present-day Mexico City. |
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| Civilization established in the location of present-day Mexico city in the 12th century. |
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| Spanish commander who, in 1520, conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico. |
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| Aztec ruler (1466-1520) conquered by Hernan Cortes |
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| People who established an empire in the area of present day Eucador near the Moche River. They were farmers and warriors, had no written language. |
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| South American civilization located in the area of modern-day Peru, Ecuador and Chile. A.D.700s-1500s. Spoke Quechua,but had no written language. Used the quipu to record information. |
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| Incan ruler until 1471. Founder of the Incan empire during the 1440's. |
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| Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca during the 1530s |
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| Major South American River |
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| Major North American River |
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| sea passage between Alaska and Russia |
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| body of water between the coasts of the southern U.S. and Mesoamerica |
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| located near East St. Louis, Illinois; site of burial mound over 98 feet high with a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt |
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| Abandoned Anasazi settlement in southern Colorado. Buildings were build in the recesses of cliff walls |
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| first major city in Mesoamerica "Place of the Gods" 250B.C. to A.D. 800 |
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| peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico. Location of the Maya civilization |
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| Mayan city located in present-day Guatemala. Had over 100,000 residents. |
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| located in present day Mexico City; capital city of the Aztec was built here on an island (Tenochtitlan) |
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| South American Country. Site of the Moche settlements |
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| Incan city located in the mountains ofj southern Peru |
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| Incan city; best example of their architectual genius.Has a long elegant stairway leading to the "hitching post of the sun." |
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| South American River; close to site of Machu Picchu |
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