US History Ch 1 Vocab

Having no fixed home, moving from place to place according to seasons and availability of food and water

• Olmec

• Pueblo

• Kinship

• Nomadic

Native American people whose civilization flourished in what is now southern Mexico in the period of 1200 - 400 BC

• Olmec

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

Native American people whose civilization flourished in Guatemala and the Yucatán peninsula between about a.d. 250 and 900

• Olmec

• Maya

• Inca

• Aztec

Native American people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s a.d. and later developed a powerful empire.

• Maya

• Inca

• Olmec

• Aztec

A native American people that around a.d. 1400 created an empire, reaching nearly 2,500 miles along the West Coast of South America.

• Maya

• Inca

• Olmec

• Anasazi

A Native American group that lived on the Mesa top, Cliff sides, and Canyon bottoms of the four corners region (where the present day states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet) from about a.d. 100-1300

• Anasazi

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

A mound builder Society that was centered in the Ohio River valley and flourished from about 700 b.c. to a.d. 100

• Pueblo

• Mississippian

• Adena

• Kashaya Pomo

A mound builder Society that was centered in the Ohio River valley and flourished from about 200 b.c. to a.d. 400

• Mississippian

• Hopewell

• Iroquois

• Kashaya Pomo

The last and most complex of the mound builder societies, inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys from about a.d. 700 into the 1500s

• Pueblo

• Kashya Pomo

• Mississippian

• Iroquois

A native American people that formally inhabited the coastal marshlands of what is now California

• Kashaya Pomo

• Pueblo

• Iroquois

• Anasazi