WorksheetsAmericas Before Europeans Intro
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is Indigenous?
•an excess amount of food. There is more food than needed.
•A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. Most powerful are at the top.
•Describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.
•a government or state with formal, centralized institutions
What is Hierarchy?
describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.
•refers to the history of the Americas BEFORE the arrival of Europeans.
•trade with other societies
•A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. Most powerful are at the top.
What is Food Surplus?
social differentiation
an excess amount of food. There is more food than needed.
describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.
Public works and architecture
Why was a food surplus needed to build a civilization?
allows civilization to settle and grow. Trade, cities and hierarchy are now possible.
describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.
Mesoamerica: Home to the Maya and Aztec
Different types of crops were exclusive to each culture area
What are the 6 features of civilization?
1) Earth
2) Wind
3) Fire
4) Water
5) Snow
6) Rivers
1) Government or state
2) Social classes
3) Trade
4) Religion
5) Public works
6) Arts and literature
What are the two culture areas we will study?
1) Aztecs
2) Incas
1) South America
2) El Salvador
1) MesoAmerica
2) Andean America
1) Olmecs
2) Toltecs
What are the three Civilizations we will study?
MesoAmerica, Andean America, North America
Aztec, Mayan, Incan
Choose the correct culture area and civilization.
MesoAmerica = Incan
Andean America = Mayan
MesoAmerica = Aztec
Andean America = Aztec
Choose the correct culture area and civilization.
Andean America = Incan
MesoAMerica = Incan
Andean America = Aztec
Andean America = Mayan
Choose the correct culture area and civilization.
MesoAmerica = Incan
MesoAmerica = Mayan
Andean America = Mayan
Andean America = Aztec
Aztec vs Incan Agriculture: What was different?
No difference, they grew the same crops.
Aztecs had potatoes and llamas.
Inca had potatoes, Llamas and Alpacas. The Mayans and Aztecs did not have these.
They grew wheat.
What are the modern countries of MesoAmerica today?
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina
United States, Canada, and Europe
What are the modern countries in Andean America today?
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras
Spain, Portugal and France
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina
When did Native Americans reach the Americas?
During the last Ice Age (12,000 or more years ago); they came in several groups, crossing the land bridge from Asia.
300,000 years ago
in 1492
How many Indigenous people were living in the Americas before the invasion of Europeans?
a few thousand
Several hundred
50-100 million
1 billion
What is Pre-Columbian America?
•Pre-Columbian refers to the history of the Americas BEFORE the arrival of Europeans.
•A surplus is an excess amount of food. There is more food than needed.
•A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. Most powerful are at the top.
•During the last Ice Age (12,000 or more years ago); they came in several groups, crossing the land bridge from Asia.
