| A | B |
| Bering Strait | The name of the waters where a land bridge once existed |
| maize | Grain grown in present-day Mexico |
| Anasazis | These people built homes called pueblos from adobe bricks |
| Inuits | These people lived in northern Canada near the sea and hunted seal, walruses, and whales |
| Iroquois League | first true representative form of government in North America |
| Maya | these people built pyramids, developed two calendars and used the number zero |
| Cuzco | Name the capital of the Incan empire |
| Glaciers | covered part of the earth during the Ice Age |
| Inca | these people had the largest empire in the Americas and sent ambassadors to bargain before soldiers attacked |
| Plains | these people lived in the area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains |
| nation | Native Americans who spoke the same language and shared other cultural traits belonged to the same |
| Mexico | The Aztec empire was at its greatest between 1300 and 1520. It was located in |
| land bridge | Due to the climate warming, the Ice Age ended. The surface of the ocean rose and covered the |
| Asian hunters | the first people who came to the Americas |
| culture | a total way of life a group of people follow |
| shamans | Native Americans believed in power of spirits found in |