Chapter 1 "America's Cultural Roots"

The land bridge between Asia and North America that existed during the Ice Age

• Straits of Gilbraltar

• Beringia

• Isthmus of Panama

• Sinai Peninsula

A Native American group that lived in the valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers from about 300 BC to 1400 AD

• Olmec

• Anasazi

• Hohokam

• Kwakiutl

A Navigational Device used to orient oneself according to the cardinal directions (One Word)

A Native American people whose civilization flourished in what is now southern Mexico in the period 1200 to 400 BC. It was a thriving civilization in the humid rain forest of the Gulf Coast.

• Hohokam

• Anasazi

• Songhai

• Olmec

The last and most complex of the Mound Builder societies, inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys from about 700 to 1500 AD

• Hohokam

• Olmec

• Mississippian

• Kwakiutl

The transfer—beginning with Columbus’s first voyage—of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere is known as what? (Two Words)

A Christian religion lead by the Pope in Rome

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Quakerism

• Lutheranism

The 1494 arrangement in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them

• Treaty of Fond du Lac

• Treaty of Greenville

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Tordesillas

A Native American people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s AD and later developed a powerful empire; the people were eventually overtaken by Cortez and the Spanish

• Inca

• Aztec

• Taino

• Anasazi

A Native American people of the Caribbean Islands — the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas

• Kwakiutl

• Inca

• Aztec

• Taino