7th Grade Social Studies- Guide 1Reiew prior to midte-Unit 1

When Europeans arrive in the Americas?

• In the 1400s

• No one knows

• In the 1500s

• In the 1300s

It is believed that it is the land that once joined Asia and the Americas.

• South America

• North America

• Beringia

• Asia and America

One popular scientific theory states that the first Americans were people from ______who crossed over during the last Ice Age.

• Africa

• Asia

• Alaska

• Beringia

The early Americans were nomads.

What does nomad mean?

• They were people that moved from place to place.

• They were people that planted in many places.

• They were people that ruled in many places.

• They were people that hunted big animals..

What happened to the big beasts after the First Americans arrived?

• They disappeared.

• No one knows

• A meteorite killed them.

• The volcano killed their food and then them.

They built permanent shelters of .......

• Pottery

• Rocks, pebbles, and bricks.

• Mud, rocks and wood.

• Clay, brick, stone, and/or wood

They built or founded Tenochtitlan.

• Mayans

• Olmec

• Inca

• Aztec

They did not have horses nor wheeled vehicles, so everything they transported overland was carried on human backs.

• Mayans

• Olmec

• Inca

• Aztec

They emerged, centered on the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán.

• Mayans

• Olmec

• Inca

• Aztec

Their language, Quechua, became the official language for the entire empire.

• Mayans

• Olmec

• Inca

• Aztec