Ch 1 The First Americans

Broad PLatforms cut into mountains

• wooly mammoth

• terraces

• archaeology

• federations

government that links different groups

• terraces

• archaeology

• ice age

• federation

study of ancient peoples

• terraces

• wooly mammoth

• archaeology

• ice age

a period of extreme cold

• wooly mammoth

• archaeology

• ice age

• federation

food source for early humans

• terraces

• wooly mammoth

• ice age

• federation

military empire

• mound builders

• Olmec

• Aztec

• pueblo

built earthen pyramids

• mound builders

• Aztec

• Olmec

• adobe

sun-dried mud-brick

• mound builders

• pueblo

• Olmec

• adobe

great stone community dwelling

• Aztec

• pueblo

• Olmec

• adobe

earliest civilization

• mound builders

• Aztec

• Olmec

• adobe