Module 1 Lesson 1/2 Key Terms

A strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 BC.

• Land of Egypt

• Lost land of Atlantis

• Bering Land Bridge

• Ice Age

The first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC.

• Olmec

• Palio- Indians

• hunter-gatherers

• Iroquois League

The movement of people from one region to another.

• migration

• culture

• Bering Land Bridge

• environment

A person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to provide for his or her needs.

• Palio- Indian

• Anasazi

• kivas

• hunter- gatherers

The climate and landscape that surrounds living things.

• culture

• environment

• migration

• kivas

The common values and traditions of a society, such as language, government, and family relationships.

• environment

• migration

• traditions

• culture

How did climate change affect early people’s migration?

• Land bridge exposed

• Help them to stay in their culture

• Help them to raise cattle

• Climate change did not affect early people's

The Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca were?

• early civilizations in North America

• tribes in Europe

• early civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America

• fierce warriors that raided villages

Early civilizations existed in Mesoamerica and South America?

• Matrilineal

• Corris Mclain

• Cherly Pierce

• Olme, Maya, Aztec, Inca

A political confederation of five northeastern Native American nations that made decisions concerning war.

• matrilineal

• iroquois league

• kivas

• culture