Unit 1 Review 7th Grade Social Studies

First hand account of an event: reliable sources of historic information

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

An advanced civilization that united its empire with a complex system or roads and rope bridges

• Olmec

• Inca

Someone who studies past people/cultures by examining artifacts.

• Historians

• Archaeologists

Man-made objects left by people if the past

• Artifacts

• Tenochtitlan

The first Americans arrived to an unsettled continent and survived as...

• farmers

• technicians

• hunters/gatherers

The first Americans were ___________ and traveled in search of food and shelter

• civilized

• nomadic

• farmers

_____: When nomadic tribes learned to plant crops like maize (corn) they were able to develop permanent settlements.

• Primary Source

• Archaeologist

• Farming

Most widely accepted theory of how the first Americans arrived from Asia to North America.

• Secondary Source

• Land Bridge Theory

• Ocean Ridge Theory

The ______ people were the earliest known civilization in the Americas.

• Olmec

• Inca

Modern day Mexico City, the ancient Aztec city was at the center of Aztec culture an served as the empire's capital

• Tenochtitlan

• Onondaga