North America Before Columbus

It is believed that the earliest Americans came from ___________ during the last Ice Age.

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

• Big Mama's House

_________________ refers to the areas of central and southern Mexico as well as areas of Central America.

• North America

• Mesoamerica

• Equatorial Guinea

• Canada

The first Mesoamerican civilization were the _______________.

• Olmecs

• Aztecs

• Mayans

• Spanish

The _______________ were known for engineering, architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.

• Incans

• Mayans

• Aztecs

• Excellians

The mighty ______________ built their capital at Tenochtitlan, or modern day Mexico City.

• Olmec

• Roughneck

• Aztec

• Tech N9ne

Who were the native people who dug hundreds of miles of irrigation channels?

• Sinagua

• Hohokam

• Mound Builders

• Anasazi

The ______________ often lived in dwellings carved into cliffsides.

• Anaconda

• Creek

• Pueblo

• Anasazi

The _______________ culture built great cities around flat, pyramid-shaped mounds.

• Missourrian

• Alabaman

• Mississippian

• Plains

The ________________ Peoples, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Cherokee, descended from the Mississippians and built cities around a central square.

• Southwestern

• Anasazi

• Waxahatchee

• Southeastern

The natives of _____________ left their towns and became nomadic buffalo hunters and master horesemen.

• the Great Plains

• New England

• Mesoamerica

• Canada