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Ch 11 the Ancient Americans
  • Review why did people cross from Asia to the
    Americas?

2
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

3
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

4
Central America
5
  • Olmec located between Maya and Aztec lands
  • Maya located on the Yucatan peninsula. Renown
    for
  • Calendar
  • Ball court

6
  • 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
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