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Chapter 14: Study Guide

“The Americas”

Part One: Vocabulary Terms

Directions: Match the vocabulary term with the correct definition.

Adobe / Drought / Inuit / Salmon
Amazon / Hieroglyphics / Maya / Temples
Andes / Hohokam / Olmec / Teotihuacan
Buffalo / Hunters & Gathers / Petén / Tomb
  1. Sun-dried mud bricks used to build houses in the southwest ______Adobe______
  2. Similar to ancient Egyptians, the Maya created a sophisticated writing system based on _Hieroglyphics__
  3. In Mesoamerica, most pyramids were often used as ______Temples______
  4. World’s largest mountain range ______Andes______
  5. One of the first planned cities in the Americas ______Teotihuacan______
  6. Possibly the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica ______Olmec______
  7. What animal was an important resource for the plains people ______Buffalo______
  8. They moved constantly in search of food & were the first people of the Americas __Hunters & Gathers_
  9. Civilizations that came to a mysterious end by the A.D. 900’s ______Maya______
  10. In present day Alaska, what Native American civilization built dome shaped structures made of ice? ______Inuit______
  11. What climate condition was faced by both Anasazi and Hohokam ______Drought______
  12. This was the main food for the people of the Pacific Northwest ______Salmon______
  13. An important reason that the mound builders built the mound was for the purpose of creating a _Tomb_
  14. It is an area settled by the Maya ______Petén______
  15. The longest river in South America ______Amazon______
  16. Early Americans who lived in present day Arizona and etched shells with acid were ____Hohokam__

Part Two: Chapter Review

Directions: Use your book, Chapter 14 Outline notes, and vocabulary definitions to answer the following questions. Please use complete sentences and answer your questions on a separate piece of notebook paper.

  1. In ancient civilizations, roads connecting villages were probably evidence of?

Trading

  1. In ancient times what was the most heavily populated place in North America?

The Pacific Coast

  1. What southwestern civilization did not form a farming society?

The Apache

  1. Compare the pyramids in ancient Egypt to those in Mesoamerica.

Egypt – tombs Mesoamerica -temples

  1. How did the people living in the American Southwest bring water to their fields?

Dug irrigation canals

  1. What was the advantage of the Anasazi’s cliff dwellings?

They were easy to defend and offered natural protection

  1. The Maya believed that their kings were?

Descended from the gods

  1. What did the Maya city-states often do?

Fought among themselves

  1. For the Maya, life centered on?

Religion

  1. El Salvador is one location where the ancestors of which ancient people can be found today?

The Maya

  1. The Olmec people traded with inland people to obtain?

Obsidian for making knives

  1. Who were the mound builders?

The Hopewell who lived east of the Mississippi

  1. What was the Iroquois League?

A governing group set up by the East Woodlands group

  1. The Rocky Mountain posed a challenge but the early people of the Americas had no difficulty crossing?

Appalachian Mountains

  1. What was one major reason that early peoples in the Americas could build complex cultures?

They learned to farm