Chapter 17 - South and North America

To extract stone from the earth

• Adobe

• Confederation

• Quarry

• Slash and Burn

This society built large burial mounds, some 30 feet tall, to honor their dead.

• Lenni-Lenape

• Cherokee

• Hopewell

• Maya

Which group made homes from clay bricks?

• Pre-Inca

• Northwest Coast cultures

• Inca

• Anasazi

Which group did NOT farm?

• Inca

• Anasazi

• Northwest Coast Cultures

• Mississippians

In the Southwest, Pueblo religious activities were held in round ceremonial rooms called

(a)  

The Great Plains were mainly grassland, on which millions of these animals grazed in herds.

(a)  

A medicine healer in Native American culture.

(a)  

What was the capital of the Inca Empire?

• Machu Picchu

• Cuzco

• Lima

• Monte Alban

Why didn’t the Northwest Coast tribes farm?

• The amount of rainfall in the region made farming impossible.

• They never developed the complex irrigation systems that were needed.

• Thick forests took up all the good farmland.

• The region provided so much food and other resources that there was no need to farm.

Under his leadership the Inca Empire developed rapidly as he introduced a strong central government, transformed the capital city of Cusco, and built an efficient network of roads that connected the vast empire.

• Cortes

• Pachacuti

• Moctezuma

• Shaman