LET’S PLAY Ancient America JEOPARDY!!

Vocabulary The start of the Americas Mesoamerica Mayas & Incas Mound Builders Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final JeopardyJeopardy

$100 Question from Vocabulary What is a steep hill with a flat, table like, top?

$100 Answer from Vocabulary Mesa

$200 Question from Vocabulary What is a vast, slow moving sheet of ice?

$200 Answer from Vocabulary Glacier

$300 Question from Vocabulary What is a large public square in a town or city?

$300 Answer from Vocabulary Plaza

$400 Question from Vocabulary DOUBLE JEOPARDY What is a village of flat-roofed adobe houses that share adjoining walls and are built in pattern of steps on many levels?

$400 Answer from Vocabulary Pueblo

$500 Question from Vocabulary What is a carving that represents something as a hieroglyph?

$500 Answer from Vocabulary Glyph

$100 Question $100 Question The Start of the Americas What is another name for corn or a grain native to the Americas?

$100 Answer from $100 Answer from The Start of the Americas Maize

$200 Question from $200 Question from The Start of the Americas What do scientists believe formed the Great Lakes?

$200 Answer from: $200 Answer from: The Start of the Americas Glaciers

$300 Question from $300 Question from The Start of the Americas True or False: History shows that the first humans in America came by foot.

$300 Answer from $300 Answer from The Start of the Americas False

$400 Question from $400 Question from The start of the Americas What group of people are believed to be the first humans to reach the Americas?

$400 Answer from $400 Answer from The Start of the Americas Hunters from Northern Asia

$500 Question from $500 Question from The Start of the Americas What forced the early people of Americas to slowly change from hunter gathers to farmers?

$500 Answer from $500 Answer from The Start of the Americas The changes in land

$100 Question from DOUBLE JEOPARDY $100 Question from Mesoamerica DOUBLE JEOPARDY Where did the Olmec’s originate?

$100 Answer from Mesoamerica Mesoamerica

$200 Question from $200 Question from Mesoamerica What three groups make up the class systems in Mesoamerica?

$200 Answer from Mesoamerica Warrior Kings Nobles Peasants

$300 Question from $300 Question from Mesoamerica What type of community / government did the people of Mesoamerica live in?

$300 Answer from $300 Answer from Mesoamerica City State

$400 Question from $400 Question from Mesoamerica What civilization lasted the longest in Mesoamerica?

$400 Answer from $400 Answer from Mesoamerica Maya

$500 Question from $500 Question from Mesoamerica What are the 3 great achievements of the Chavin Civilization?

$500 Answer from Mesoamerica Farming - corn Building Urban centers Building Step Pyramids

$100 Question from Mayans and Incas Which group civilization was considered the largest Ancient American Empire?

$100 Answer from Mayans and Incas Incas

$200 Question from Mayans and Incas DOUBLE JEOPARDY List 3 reasons that the Mayan city of Copan was abandoned?

$200 Answer from Mayans and Incas Lack of food disease warfare

$300 Question from Mayans and Incas What did the Copan's use in place of money?

$300 Answer from Mayans and Incas beans sea salt other goods

$400 Question from Mayans and Incas True or False: Inca's sacrificed those they defeated?

$400 Answer from Mayans and Incas False

$500 Question from Mayans and Incas What was the Inca civilizations greatest achievement?

$500 Answer from Mayans and Incas Building road systems

$100 Question from Mound Build Where were the Hopewell located?

$100 Answer from Mound Build Ohio

$200 Question from Mound Build Where were the Mississippians located?

$200 Answer from Mound Build Illinois

$300 Question from Mound Build Why did the Anasazi continuously try to improve their housing?

$300 Answer from Mound Build Harsh climates

$400 Question from Mound Build Who was buried in the Hopewell's earthen mounds?

$400 Answer from Mound Build Nobles

$500 Question from Mound Build DOUBLE JEOPARDY What helped the Mississippian civilization to grow?

$500 Answer from Mound Build Cultivation of crops

Final Jeopardy Define an isthmus and give an example of one located in the Ancient Americas.

Final Jeopardy Answer Definition: Narrow Strip of Land Example: Mesoamerica