Ch 16 MesoAmerica

Huge sheets of ice?

• Ice Cube

• Glacier

• Snow

Land bridge between Asia and North America?

• Beringia

• Alaska

• Russia

• Glacier

Middle America was called this?

• Mesoamerica

• South America

• North America

A group of people who lived near present day VeraCruz.

• Olmec

• Anasazi

Built a civilization in the steamy rainforest of the Yucatan Peninsula.

• Maya

• Inca

They were a civilization in the Andes mountains.

• Maya

• Inca

• Aztec

They lived in the Valley of Mexico and built a city on an island in the middle of the lake.

• Aztec
• Inca

• Maya

Means the place of the prickly pear cactus.

• Tenochtitlan

• Tula

• Machu Picchu

Inca King

• Pachacuti

• Peten

He discovered America and sailed for Spain

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Hernan Cortes