The Americas chapter Review

1. The Americas chapter Review • What is isthmus? • What is Maize? • What are the major mountains ranges in North and South America? • What are the major rivers in North and South America? • In which two way early people could have come to North America? • Why farming was very successful in Mesoamerica? • Where did Chavin live? • What is the oldest civilization in the Mesoamericans? • What are the most important civilizations in Mesoamerica? • What culture developed in North America? What are they known for? • How Mayas got fresh water? • What mathematic concept did the Mayas develop? • Why are the possible reasons why the Mayan civilization declined? • What group lived near the Arctic Circle? • What groups dominated the Southwest? • What are the Mayas achievements? • How did Inuit survive? • What are sinkholes? • What are the hogans? • What is the best know empire from the Mesoamerica? • A narrow piece of land that connected two larger areas of land • Corn • Rocky mountains and the Andes range • The Mississippi and Amazon • By walking across the land bridge or by boat • The land was rich and the climate was mild • Coastal area of present Peru and Ecuador • The Olmec • Olmec, Mayas and Aztecs • The Hohokam (they dug irrigation canal, the Anasazi (built stone buildings called pueblos, the mound builders (were mainly hunters and farmers), the Mississippians (built huge mound of earth) • From swaps and sinkholes • Zero • Increased warfare, decreased of food production, increased diseases • The Inuit • The Hopi, The Acoma, and The Zuni • Invented a writing system, Development of a calendar, understood astronomy • Hunting seals, walruses and polar bears • Areas where the soil has collapsed into a hollow or depression • Square, wooden homes built by the Navajo • Aztec Empire