Ch. 1 CKHG Early Americans and The First Europeans

______________ was a land bridge a thousand miles, wide, that connected Siberia to Alaska.

• Orlando

• Beringia

• Juneau

• Georgia

The ___________________ were the first people in the Americas to develop an advanced form of writing.

• Mayans

• Aztecs

• Incas

Which is NOT a way historians have theorized ancient people traveled to the Western Hemisphere?

• Came across on boats

• Walked on ice paths

• Swam across

• Crossed on a land bridge

What was even more deadly than Cortés’s armed invasions into Aztec territory?

• Drought

• Smallpox

• Famine

• Fighting with rival city-states

Which was NOT a highly established and organized indigenous groups of Central and South America?

• Aztec

• Sioux

• Inca

• Maya

What was the Aztec’s capital city called?

• Texcoco

• Tenayuca

• Tenochtitlan

• Colhuacan

What was the Iroquois Confederacy and who what government did they influence?

Which was NOT one of the "three sisters" crops?

• Corn

• Bean

• Squash

• Potato

Who were the Cherokee descendants of the ____________________________.

What were the two major causes of conflict between the early Americans and Europeans?