Transcript Ch 11: the Ancient Americans

Ch 11: the Ancient Americans
Review – why did people cross from Asia to the
America’s?
North America
Inuit – present day Alaska and
Canada
• Mound Builders – the Ohio and
Mississippi River Valleys
• Iroquois – east of the Mississippi
River
• Great Plains
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Anasazi – Four-corners region
Important Vocabulary!
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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
Central America
Olmec – located between Maya and Aztec
lands
 Maya – located on the Yucatan peninsula.
Renown for:
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Calendar
Ball court
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Aztec – their capital of Tenochtitlan (tay-nachteet-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
South America
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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