10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geography Andean Cultures Olmec MayaPotpourri
The continents of North and South America are connected by a(n)
What is an isthmus?
The _______________ is a region of lowlands containing dense jungles between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
The geography of North and South America are similar because they both have _______ in the west and major ______ systems.
What are Mountains and rivers?
The major river systems of North and South America are the
What are the Mississippi and Amazon/Paran ẚ ?
There are many warm and rainy areas in South America. This type of climate is called _______.
What is tropical?
The people of the _______ civilization made beautiful jewelry from gold, silver, and turquoise.
What is Moche?
The _______ people were the dominant culture along Peru’s northern between around A.D.
What is Moche?
The ______ culture developed in the Andes Mountains between 900 and 200 B.C.
What is Chavin?
Both the Chavin and the Nazca left ______ and _______ these are artifacts that tell us about their culture?
What are pottery and textiles?
The Nazca and Moche lived in dry regions and had to use _______________ to water their crops.
What is irrigation?
The Olmec society was divided into classes. The largest and lowest class was that of the _____?
What is farmers?
The Olmec culture is known as the ________ because it influenced many other cultures.
What is mother culture?
The Olmec influence spread because of the economic activity of ___________.
What is trade?
The Olmec civilization Developed in the jungles of Mexico’s Gulf Coast region. Farming here was successful because of the ____ &____.
What is fertile soil and rivers?
The most important of the Olmec culture’s objects of worship was the _____________
What is jaguar?
According to their legend, Mayan people believed that people had been created out of _____.
What is maize?
The Mayans invented ______ from bark and ______which represented words were used to write on it.
What are paper and glyphs?
A Mayan book-like artifact…
What is a codex?
Mayan civilization developed on the _____________
What is the Yucatan Penninsula?
The Maya set up _____ to mark special events and to honor their rulers.
What are steles?
The ______ and _____ civilizations were not located in South America.
What are Mayan and Olmec?
The Maya developed what mathematical ideas?
What is using the zero and positions to show place (place value)?
Archaeologists think that _____ united the Chavin.
What is religion?
Mayan pyramids were used for _____ and _____.
What is tombs and religion (worship)?
Meso-America’s tropical lowland’s common feature is _____.
What are jungles?
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