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LET’S PLAY Ancient America JEOPARDY!!
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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
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$100 Question from Vocabulary What is a steep hill with a flat, table like, top?
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$100 Answer from Vocabulary Mesa
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$200 Question from Vocabulary What is a vast, slow moving sheet of ice?
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$200 Answer from Vocabulary Glacier
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$300 Question from Vocabulary What is a large public square in a town or city?
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$300 Answer from Vocabulary Plaza
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$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?
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$400 Answer from Vocabulary Pueblo
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$500 Question from Vocabulary What is a carving that represents something as a hieroglyph?
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$500 Answer from Vocabulary Glyph
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$100 Question $100 Question The Start of the Americas What is another name for corn or a grain native to the Americas?
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$100 Answer from $100 Answer from The Start of the Americas Maize
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$200 Question from $200 Question from The Start of the Americas What do scientists believe formed the Great Lakes?
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$200 Answer from: $200 Answer from: The Start of the Americas Glaciers
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$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.
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$300 Answer from $300 Answer from The Start of the Americas False
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$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?
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$400 Answer from $400 Answer from The Start of the Americas Hunters from Northern Asia
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$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?
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$500 Answer from $500 Answer from The Start of the Americas The changes in land
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$100 Question from DOUBLE JEOPARDY $100 Question from Mesoamerica DOUBLE JEOPARDY Where did the Olmec’s originate?
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$100 Answer from Mesoamerica Mesoamerica
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$200 Question from $200 Question from Mesoamerica What three groups make up the class systems in Mesoamerica?
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$200 Answer from Mesoamerica Warrior Kings Nobles Peasants
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$300 Question from $300 Question from Mesoamerica What type of community / government did the people of Mesoamerica live in?
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$300 Answer from $300 Answer from Mesoamerica City State
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$400 Question from $400 Question from Mesoamerica What civilization lasted the longest in Mesoamerica?
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$400 Answer from $400 Answer from Mesoamerica Maya
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$500 Question from $500 Question from Mesoamerica What are the 3 great achievements of the Chavin Civilization?
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$500 Answer from Mesoamerica Farming - corn Building Urban centers Building Step Pyramids
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$100 Question from Mayans and Incas Which group civilization was considered the largest Ancient American Empire?
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$100 Answer from Mayans and Incas Incas
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$200 Question from Mayans and Incas DOUBLE JEOPARDY List 3 reasons that the Mayan city of Copan was abandoned?
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$200 Answer from Mayans and Incas Lack of food disease warfare
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$300 Question from Mayans and Incas What did the Copan's use in place of money?
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$300 Answer from Mayans and Incas beans sea salt other goods
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$400 Question from Mayans and Incas True or False: Inca's sacrificed those they defeated?
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$400 Answer from Mayans and Incas False
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$500 Question from Mayans and Incas What was the Inca civilizations greatest achievement?
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$500 Answer from Mayans and Incas Building road systems
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$100 Question from Mound Build Where were the Hopewell located?
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$100 Answer from Mound Build Ohio
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$200 Question from Mound Build Where were the Mississippians located?
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$200 Answer from Mound Build Illinois
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$300 Question from Mound Build Why did the Anasazi continuously try to improve their housing?
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$300 Answer from Mound Build Harsh climates
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$400 Question from Mound Build Who was buried in the Hopewell's earthen mounds?
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$400 Answer from Mound Build Nobles
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$500 Question from Mound Build DOUBLE JEOPARDY What helped the Mississippian civilization to grow?
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$500 Answer from Mound Build Cultivation of crops
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Final Jeopardy Define an isthmus and give an example of one located in the Ancient Americas.
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Final Jeopardy Answer Definition: Narrow Strip of Land Example: Mesoamerica
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