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Early American Cultures
Myers Early American Cultures
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8th Grade
09/21/2010

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pueblo
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Anasazi homes or villages
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St Louis
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Cahokia is nearby this present-day US city
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theocracy
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a form of government in which the society is ruled by religious leaders
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civilization
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a highly developed culture with organized laws
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terrace
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a leveled piece of land on a mountian for farming
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migration
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a movement of a large number of people
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2012
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according to the Maya calendar, in what year will the world end?
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hieroglyphics
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an ancient form of writing using symblos and pictures
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maize
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an early form of corn grown by Native Americans
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Tenochtitlan
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capital of the Aztecs
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Cuzco
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capital of the Incas
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the Mayans had a symbol for zero
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give one example of how the Maya math system was more complex than the Romans
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Beringia
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land bridge possibly crossed by the First Amreicans
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nomads
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people who move from place to place
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quipu
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string calculating device created by the Incas
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adobe
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sun dried bricks made of clay and sand
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Olmec
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the first major civilization in the Americas
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Mound Builders
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this civilization built large mounds of dirt
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Incas
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this civilization built stone-paved roads and bridges over mountains
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Anasazi
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this civilization built their homes out of adobe
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Maya
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this civilization commonly traded jade and turquoise
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Aztec
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this civilization is well-known today for its gold and valuables
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Aztec
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this civilization used human sacrifice to appease the sun god
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Inca
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this civiliztion lived along the Pacific Coast in S. America
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Maya
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this civiliztion lived in present-day Belize, Honduras and Guatemala
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Aztec
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this civiliztion lived in present-day Central Mexico
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Mound Builders
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this civiliztion lived in present-day Missouri
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Anasazi
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this civiliztion lived in the four corners region of the US
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irrigation
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this one achievement allowed the Anasazi to live successfully in the American southwest
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Cahokia
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this was the largest Mound Builder city
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the development of agriculture
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what single achievement allowed the Native Americans to settle down and live it cities
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Inca
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which civilization created the Nazca lines? (no, not the aliens)
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Aztec
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which civilization lived on an island in Lake Texcoco
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Aztec and Inca
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which of the civilizations were conquered by the Spanish?
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Aztec
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which of the early civilization do most Mexicans identify with today?
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Inca
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which of the early civilizations does the book call the largest
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all of them!
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which of the early native civilizations that we studied would have been considered theocracies?
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