Ch16 L2 Life in the Americas

A notable and unique achievement of the Iroquois League was ____.

• creating a constitution for their government

• inventing the mud-dried bricks called adobe

• developing farming based on corns, beans, and squash

• forming a union of Native American groups

The Inuit settled along the coasts of the treeless plain south of the Arctic known as the ____.

• tundra

• Great Plains

• igloo

• swamp

Powerful ruler who expanded the Aztec empire and built temples, aqueducts, and roads

• hogan

• Montezuma I

• Hernan Cortes

• Moctezuma

Navajo home

• hogan

• teepee

• igloo

• palace

Region between central Mexico and Costa Rica.

• Machu Picchu

• Central America

• Mesoamerica

• isthmus

Narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies.

• hogan

• isthmus

• tepee

• peninsula

The peoples of the Great Plains lived in cone-shaped tents called

• hogan

• isthmus

• tepees

• mud brick houses

Both the Maya and the Aztec had two ____________________, one for tracking religion and one for farming.

• pyramids

• emperors

• calendars

• sacrifices

Hieroglyphs have helped us learn about the Inca.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Iroquois League consisted of five different groups of Native Americans.

• TRUE

• FALSE