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| What is a potlatch? | A Pacific Northwest feast to display wealth, rank, and distribute goods. |
| What tribes are included in the Pacific Northwest cultural group? | Haida, Nootka, Kwatiutl |
| How did geography affect Pacific Northwest peoples? | Fishing for coasdtal peoples and artifacts carved from wood. |
| What is a totem? | Animal or other natural object that are symbols for unity, protection and power for clans. |
| What is a pueblo? | A village of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone in the American Southwest. |
| What groups are the pueblo people? | Anasazi, Hohokam, Hopi, and Zuni. |
| How does geography affect pueblo people? | They crafted homes and daily objects from sandstone and clay in the arid Southwest. |
| How did ueblo people cooperate as a community? | By building pueblos. |
| Where are the mound builders? | Along the Mississipi and Ohio Rivers. |
| What groups were the Mound Builders? | Adena, Hopewell and Mississipian |
| What evidence shows cooperation among mound builders? | Artifacts that show long distance river trade and construction of pyramid and animal shaped mounds |
| Where was the lragest center of mound builder culture? | Cahokia (Illinois) |
| Which groups were included in the Eastern Woodlands? | Algonquian, iroquois, and Oneida |
| What political activity showed large scale cooperation among Eastern Woodlands people? | Iroquois Confederacy |
| When was the main Mayan civilization? | 300-900 A.D. |
| Where were the Maya? | Central ameirca's Yucatan peninsula and inland to Honduras |
| What were centers for Maya kingdoms? | Chichen Itza, Tikal, Copan, Palenque |
| What was Mayan writing? | Glyphs |
| What is a Mayan accordion-folded book ? | Codex |
| Who or what is Zotz? | Mayan vampire bat god of Underworld |
| What evidence shows that the Mayans were advanced astronomers? | they devised an accurate and complex calendar. |
| What evidence shos Mayan wre advanced in math ideas? | The concept of Zero |
| What is a Mayan god who received offerings of human sacrific in a bowl? | Chac Mool |
| Why was large scale human sacrifice an important element in Aztec religion? | The Sun God would only rise each day if he was fed with human blood. |
| When did the Aztec empire flourish? | 1200 to 1521 A.D. |
| Where did the Aztecs live? | Central Mexico from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
| What was the Aztec capital? | Tinochtitlan |
| Who was the Aztec ruler? | Montezuma |
| Why did Aztecs continue aggressive conquest of neighbor groups? | The need for war captives for sacrifice and tribute. |
| What valuable native stone was used as a sharp and effective weapon by the Aztecs? | Obsidian |
| Where is Tinochtitlan? | The Valley of Mexico |
| How did Aztecs show their engineering skills? | They built aqueducts and bridges and causeways to connect their island capital city with drier roads. |
| What was Quetzalcoatl? | The Feathered serpent God of Peace and renewal. |
| When did the Incas rule? | 1438-1535 A.D. |
| Where was the Inca empire? | It ran 2500 miles along the Andes Mountains on the west coast of South America. |
| Who was the great Inca empire builder? | Pachacuti |
| Where was the capital of the inca Empire? | Cuzco (Peru) |
| What was a Mita? | A labor tribute: The inca requirement that all subjects worked a certain numbers of days each year on government projects. |
| What was an aylla? | An incan community or clan whose members worked together for the common good. |
| What agricultural advances helped the incas to support a large population? | Terraced farming and irrigation projects |
| What is Macchu Picchu? | "Old Peaks": An Inca ceremonial center high in the muntains. |
| What pre-Incan culture produced amazing and lifelike vessels andfigures of people and animals? | Moche |
