Worksheetsearly americans
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The study of acient people is called archeology
true
false
the tools, weapons, and art work of early people are called
archeology
nomad
carbon dating
artifacts
The land bridge that connected Asia and the Americas we called
siberia
antarctica
alaska
beringia
the crossing of the land bridge was a migration, a movement of a large number of people into a new area.
True
False
people who move from place to place in search of hunting grounds or food sources are called...
mastodons
nomads
cultures
nemads
what happened to the beringia land bridge when the ice age began to end and temperatures started to rise
it was destroyed by an earthquake
the oceans rose and covered it with water
it stayed the same and still connects continents
it grew wider and allowed more people to migrate
when the number of large mammals began to disappear people had to find different for food
sources
estimates
nomads
cultures
which method of getting food changed the nomadic way of life
hunting
gathering
fishing
farming
the scientific method called carbon dating allows scientists to estimate the approximate age of an artifact
true
false
culture is defined as
a method of farming
a scientific dating technique
an approximate number
a way of life
The Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca were highly developed societies, also called
artifacts
civilizations
quipus
hieroglyphics
Between 1500 B.C. and 300 B.C., the ... people farmed and built stone houses, monuments, and drainage systems in what are now Mexico, Guatemala, and Hounduras
Olmec
Maya
Aztec
Inca
The Maya civilization was a ...., or a society ruled by religious leaders.
philosophy
anarchy
democracy
theocracy
the maya traded a wide varietyof items, such as jade statues, turqoise jewerly, and cacao beans for making chocolate.
true
false
the Aztec city Tenochititlan was biult on an island in Lake Texcoco after a group og the Aztec hunters saw a sign from their god.
True
False
One key religious belief of the Aztec was that........, was necessarly to please the gods and secure abundant harvest.
gold jewerly
conquering neighboring communities
human sacrifice
releasing prisioners of wars
The capital City of the Inca empire is
cuzco
Tenochititlan
topa Inca
MAchu picchu
To farm their mountains lands, the inca cut....., into the sides of the steeps terrains
artifacts
quipus
heiroglyphics
terraces
to connect their vast empire, the Maya built at least 10,000 miles (16,093 km) of stone paved roads
True
False
The Inca made...., by knotting different colors of string in strait in special patterns to record information.
Quechua
Quipus
Terraces
Hierrolyphics
