Pre-Columbian American Indian Cultures

How did the first American Indian groups get to North America, according to most secular historians and anthropologists?

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What geological epoch created the conditions for the Bering Land Bridge to appear?

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The Neolithic Age:

• saw increasing percentages of Native Americans engaging in hunter-gatherer subsistence activities

• means "Old Stone Age"

• means "New Stone Age"

• saw increasing percentages of Native Americans begin to develop agriculture

The Mayans:

• resided on the Yucatan Peninsula

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• engaged in ritual human sacrifice

Which is true of Central Mexico at the time of initial Spanish colonization (several hundred years after the downfall of Mayan civilization)?

• it was home to the Aztec Empire

• the largest urban area of the region was called Tenochtitlan

• the region was dominated by potato farming

• it included a population of indigenous peoples who survived off the fish of the Columbia River

The Incas:

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• subsisted on maize and rice, primarily

• were well-known for creating precious figures made of gold, which they considered the substance that flowed through their gods' veins

• focused on growing potatoes more than wheat or maize

The language of many Northeastern American Indian tribes prior to 1492 was:

• Algonquian

• Aztec

• Siouan

• Athabaskan

Longhouses:

• were developed in the Southeastern part of North America

• usually held multiple families under a single roof

• held many people who were related patrilineally

• were found most often in the Great Basin and Great Plains

A group that would have used longhouses most often would have been:

• the Anasazi

• the Iroquois

• the Pueblo

• Chinook culture

The longhouse was an adaptation for survival in their environment by:

• the Mississippians of Cahokia

• the Pueblo of the Southwest

• the Inuit of the Arctic

• the Northeaster woodlanders