American Republic Chapter 1 Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Review questions from Chapter 1: America, Europe, and Africa Before 1620

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What the earliest clans of people were because they were constantly on the move in search of food

nomadic

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Present-day Mexico and Central America

Mesoamerica

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Ancient civilization that occupied southern Mexico; Their name means "rubber people"

Olmec

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Ancient civilization that occupied what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala; built temples and step pyramids

Maya

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Ancient civilization that occupied Mexico; were warriors

Aztec

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Ancient civilization that occupied the western side of South America; built large architectural works and cities with networks of roads

Inca

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Spanish conquerors of Central and South America

conquistadors

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Native American groups that built houses from cedar, lived along oceans and rivers, carved totem poles

Northwest Coast

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symbolic poles carved from large trees to depict family history, local legends, and important events

totem poles

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Native American groups that were nomadic hunter-gatherers, lived near the Rocky Mts, and drew petroglyphs on the side of rocks

Great Basin and Plateau

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rock drawings that Native Americans from the Great Basin area carved

petroglyphs

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Native American groups called cliff dwellers, constructed houses in the sides of cliffs, made houses from adobe

Southwest

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a dried clay and straw mixture used to construct houses

adobe

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Native American groups that settled in frigid regions, constructed igloos, and hunted animals like caribou

Arctic and Subarctic

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snow and ice block houses tribes like the Inuits constructed

igloos

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Native American groups who lived in the East from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, lived in wigwams

Eastern Woodlands

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