Chapter 1 Review - Social Studies

What is an empire?

• a large area of different peoples controlled by one ruler or government

• a group of people in the star wars movies

• a big piece of land

What is a glacier?

• something from the Titanic movie

• a huge sheet of ice

• ice cubes

What is slavery?

• a popular food from Europe

• a group of people in Greece

• the practice of owning people and forcing them to work

What is civilization?

• a culture with complex systems of government, education, and religion

• a type of church

• a huge rock that sits near the sea

What was the Ice Age?

• a period of time when Native Americans used ice in their cooking

• a period when much of Earth's water was frozen into large sheets of ice

• a period of time when people only drank ice water

Where did the Mound Builders live?

• near the Canadian border

• in California

• near the Mississippi and Ohio rivers

• West Africa

Where did the Anasazi live?

• the Southwest

• near the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

• with their parents

• near Egypt

How did the people of Tenochtitlan build their city?

• using bricks

• on a raised platform above the clouds

• in the middle of the ocean

• on a island in the middle of a lake

What led to the end of the Inca empire?

• they all ate poisonous mushrooms

• a Spanish invasion

• the war of 1812

• everyone just left

Which group of people made buildings out of rounded piles of the earth?

• the Olmec

• the Maya

• the Mound Builders

• the Inca