3. VocabularyCivilizations Explorers & Conquistadors Mixed Bag 100 200 400 300 400 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Sun dried mud bricks used to build homes in the desert Southwest What is adobe? Category 1 Question 1

5. Groups of people who moved constantly in search of food What are hunter-gatherers or nomads? Category 1 Question 2

6. A land bridge connecting Asia and Alaska during the last Ice Age What is Beringia? Category 1 Question 3

7. A rope with knotted cords that served as a calculator What is a quipu? Category 1 Question 4

8. Native American confedera- tions, like the The Iroqouis League, were formed for this reason What is to end fighting among groups? Category 1 Question 5

9. A farming culture that thrived from about C.E. 300 to C.E. 1300 Who were the Hohokam? Category 2 Question 1

10. These ancient Americans lived in apartment houses in cliff walls Who were the Anasazi? Category 2 Question 2

11. A group of ancient peoples that hunted/gathered and built mounds Who were the Mound Builders? Category 2 Question 3

12. This group of ancient people developed a trading empire that flourished between 1200 B.C.E. and 400 B.C.E. Who were the Olmec? Category 2 Question 4

13. This group of ancient peoples lived in what is present-day Alaska Who were the Inuit? Category 2 Question 5

14. This explorer landed on the island of Hispaniola in 1492 Who was Christopher Columbus? Category 3 Question 1

15. A Spanish soldier who defeated the Aztec Who was Hernán Cortés? Category 3 Question 2

16. This emperor did not attack the invading Spaniards right away because he thought Cortés was a god Who was Montezuma? Category 3 Question 3

17. These three things enabled the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs What are guns, horses, and disease? Category 3 Question 4

18. A Spanish soldier who defeated the Inca Who was Francisco Pizarro? Category 3 Question 5

19. This advancement allowed early people in North America to build complex cultures What is farming? Category 4 Question 1

20. This culture’s city-states were located in the dense forests of Petén Who were the Maya? Category 4 Question 2

21. This civilization came to a mysterious end Who were the Maya? Category 4 Question 3

22. This Incan leader built a huge ancient empire Who is Pachacuti? Category 4 Question 4

23. Category 4 Question 5 The Moche people prospered once they perfected this farming advancement What is irrigation?