Early Civilizations in America

Built a massive empire which was connected by more than 10,000 miles of roads

• Inca

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

The earliest known civilization in the Americas

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Lived in the Mesoamerican rainforest; made great advances in astronomy and mathematics including creating a relatively accurate 365-day calendar and developed the concept of zero

• Maya

• Olmec

• Aztec

• Inca

Built their capital, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu in present-day Peru.

• Inca

• Aztec

• Maya

• Olmec

Lived in the Four Corners region and originally lived in pit houses; later lived in pueblos.

• Ancestral Pueblo People

• Navajo

• Apache

• Hopi

What is the term for the way a society behaves and its system of beliefs, laws, and customs?

• Theocracy

• Culture

• Civilization

Which of the following was the last to join the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?

• Mohawk

• Seneca

• Onondaga

• Tuscarora

The land-bridge theory suggests that early humans migrated to North America from Asia by crossing what natural formation?

• Bering Land Bridge

• Panama Canal

• Suez Canal

• Strait of Gibraltar

Prior to European colonization, how did early Americans adapt to their environment? Choose 2 correct examples.

• They built igloos in the Arctic regions.

• They developed advanced irrigation systems in the desert.

• They used horses for transportation in the Great Plains.

built large mounds of earth in what is now the central  United States; the mounds were used for temples and burial sites

• Mound Builders

• Ancestral Pueblo People

• Haudenosaunee

• Huhugam