Ch 11: the Ancient Americans

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Ch 11 the Ancient Americans

• Review why did people cross from Asia to the
  Americas?

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North America

• Inuit present day Alaska and
• Canada
• Mound Builders the Ohio and
• Mississippi River Valleys
• Iroquois east of the Mississippi
• River
• Great Plains
• Anasazi Four-corners region

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Important Vocabulary!

• Clans groups of related families
• Adobe sun-dried brick
• Pueblos multi-storied structures that could
  house many people
• Tribute goods or money paid by conquered
  peoples to their conquerors
• Quipu a system of knotted strings used to keep
  track of counted items

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Central America
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• Olmec located between Maya and Aztec lands
• Maya located on the Yucatan peninsula. Renown
  for
• Calendar
• Ball court

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• Aztec their capital of Tenochtitlan
  (tay-nach-teet-klahn) found on an island in the
  middle of Lake Texacoco, now the location of
  Mexico City. Montezuma was conquered by Hernan
  Cortez
• These civilizations in general all had temples,
  similar gods, and practiced human sacrifice

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South America

• Caral is the oldest major city in the Americas
  more than 1,000 years (located in Peru)
• Incan a well-organized empire that used llamas
  for transportation, built roads, used quipu, and
  was conquered by Francisco Pizarro