SS Chapter 1 Lesson 1 and 2

Name:

The first humans came to the Americas from Asia for this reason.

• They were seeking more plants to gather.
• They were following the animals they hunted.
• They were trying to reach the tip of South America.
• They were fleeing overcrowded conditions in Siberia.

What happened to make hunter-gatherers in the Americas stop hunting and start farming?

• Several kinds of animals they hunted had died off.
• People decided they wanted more variety in their diet.
• Some of the people began to focus on arts and religion.
• The climate grew so hot that hunting became too difficult.

First humans to settle the Western Hemisphere.

• farmers
• hunter-gatherers
• warriors
• explorers

People who study the tools and other artifacts of people from the past.

• anthropologyst
• paleontologyst
• geologyst
• archeologyst

After the last Ice Age, animals became______.

The most important effect of farming.

• a community can create a better irrigatio system
• a community has more homes for its people
• a community can raise more food than it needs to feed itself.
• a community can collect rain water in basins.

The Maya lived in __________.

• Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
• Mexico, Belize, Guatemala
• Mexico, Southwest, Belize
• Belize, Costa Rica, Panama

The greatest Mississippian city is the site known today as _________.

• Cahokia
• Topeka
• Sioux
• Dakota

The largest pre- Columbian earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere.

• Cahokia
• Apache
• Wickiup
• Monks Mound