Ch. 6-1 The First Americas page 208-218

Extends both north and south of the Equator

• the Caribbean

• South America

• Yucatan

• mounds

Created by the early people of North America, but not by those from Central and South America

• temples

• pyramids

• mounds

• totem poles

Used animals for food, clothing, and shelter.

• hunter-gatherers

• nomads

• wonderers

• hippies

Collective name for a group of islands located in waters off northern South America.

• Hawaii

• the Caribbean

• the Philippines

• the Aleutian Islands

Home of the Maya.

• New Delhi

• The Cayman Islands

• Baha California

• Yucatan

The four geographical areas of the Americans are North America, South America, Central America, and

• the Arctic.

• Argentina.

• the Caribbean.

• Tierra del Fuego.

A land bridge from Asia to the Americas was made possible by which of the following?

• archaeologists

• the development of stone tools

• last Ice Age

• prehistoric people

As farming spread, people began to

• fight with one another.

• move southward.

• rely on hunting and gathering.

• settle in one place.

Where did the Olmec establish their civilization?

• Gulf of Mexico coast

• present-day Peru

• south central Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula