Chapter 1

Question 1

What is a Glacier?

Answer 1

Thick sheets of ice made of packed snow

Question 2

What is a Settlement?

Answer 2

small communities

Question 3

What is a Surplus?

Answer 3

an excess of extra food

Question 4

What is Civilization?

Answer 4

An advanced culture in which people have developed cities and industry

Question 5

What is a city-state?

Answer 5

is a political unit that controls a city and its surrounding land

Question 6

What is a cause way?

Answer 6

raised roads made of packed dirt

Question 7

What is a Quipus?

Answer 7

string with knots used to keep records

Question 8

What is a terrace?

Answer 8

wide flat steps of land that was cut into the mountainside

Question 9

What is Archeology?

Answer 9

the study of ancient people

Question 10

What is an Artifact?

Answer 10

things that belong to the early people

Question 11

What is Siberia? (the definition duh)

Answer 11

The place in northern Asia that was connected to Alaska by the land bridge

Question 12

What is Bering Strait?

Answer 12

Narrow body of water in between Siberia and Alaska (between Asia and North America)

Question 13

What is Carbon Dating?

Answer 13

Tells us how old something is due to the amount of Carbon in the item within 100 years

Question 14

What is Theocracy?

Answer 14

a society ruled by religious leaders.

Question 15

What is Chichen Itza?

Answer 15

It is on the Yucatan Peninsula, it was a Mayan City

Question 16

What is Machu Picchu?

Answer 16

Was the religious center of the Incas, discovered by Hiram Bingham

Question 17

What is Tikal?

Answer 17

was the largest city in Guatemala. Contained 6 pyramids. It was a Mayan city

Question 18

What is Tenochtitlan?

Answer 18

The Aztecs capital city today it was known as Mexico City

Question 19

What is Cuzco?

Answer 19

The Incas’ capital city in the Andes Mountains

Question 20

What is Culture?

Answer 20

An entire way of life developed by people

Question 21

What is Adobe?

Answer 21

Sun dried brick

Question 22

What are Pueblo?

Answer 22

what the Anasazi’s called their buildings

Question 23

What is a Tribe?

Answer 23

a community of people who share common customs, language and rituals

Question 24

What is Diffusion?

Answer 24

the process of spreading ideas from one culture to another

Question 25

What is a Potlatch?

Answer 25

ceremony in which the host gave gifts to their guests, Ex: Baskets, Canoes, or fur

Question 26

What is a Clan?

Answer 26

a group of families related to one another

Question 27

What were the Iroquois?

Answer 27

the alliance between five iroquois tribes that become one

Question 28

What is a Kayak?

Answer 28

small boats made from animal skins, made by the Arctic

Question 29

What are Sachems?

Answer 29

Leader of the tribe and the women chose them, there were 50

Question 30

Where were the Anasazi located

Answer 30

The Anasazi lived in what is called 4 corners, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico

Question 31

Who were the Hopewell?

Answer 31

Were Moundbuilders, and they built the Great Serpent Mound

Question 32

Who were the Inuit?

Answer 32

Called Eskimos, and they are part of the Arctic group

Question 33

What is the Beringia?

Answer 33

land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska

Question 34

What is Feudalism?

Answer 34

a system of government in which a ruler grants part of his land to lords, in exchange for military service

Question 35

What is Manor?

Answer 35

Included the Lords’ castle and the land around it

Question 36

What were the Crusades?

Answer 36

they were Holy Wars declared by Pope Urban ll to recapture the Holy land of Jerusalem from the Turkish Muslims

Question 37

What is Astrolabe?

Answer 37

A navigational tool used to determine latitude

Question 38

What was the Silk road?

Answer 38

Great trade Route between China and the Middle East.

Question 39

What is Caravan?

Answer 39

groups of people who traveled together for safety