Social Studies Lesson 1

What factors likely led some early Americans to change from hunting to farming?

(There are two correct answers)

• Food sources began to disappear.

• Influence from other cultures
• Increase in population and need for stable food supply
• People were lost.

migration

• the movement of people into a new area
• highly developed society
• corn

• highly detailed

hieroglyphic

• a supply

• a person that moves from place to place.

• A form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.

• a animal that has large teeth.

nomad

• a rough calculation of a number.

• a person who moves from place to place.

• a variety of corn

• highly detailed

theocracy

• swimming with flippers on.

• a board platform of flat land cut into a slope.

• highly developed society

• a society that is ruled by religious leaders.

civilization

• a highly developed society.

• Two cities that went to war .

• a broad platform of flat land cut into a slope.

• a highly detailed book

What key features did the great civilizations of Mexico, Central America, and South America have in common?

(There are 3 correct answers)

• They produced great works of art.

• They all had to get married and have many children.

• They all covered a wide area and had large populations.

• They built spectacular structures.

Which was the center of the Aztec Empire?

• Montezuma

• Machu Picchu

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

Which of the following was is an example of a key feature of the Inca civilization?

• building their capital city in the middle of Lake Texcoco.

• creating enormous stone monuments that were up to nine feet tall.

• predicting eclipses and creating a 365-day calendar.

• farming their land by cutting terraces into the mountainsides.

Which of the following has been a leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?

• They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.

• They swam across the Pacific Ocean from small islands.

• They sailed from Europe to explore new lands.

• They crossed glaciers that once linked Antarctica to South America.