Powerpoint Jeopardy

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This is a payment made from conquered people.

What is a tribute?

This is a ceremony in which a wealthy host

distributed gifts to guests.

What is a potlatch?

Who is an igloo?

This is a dome-shaped home made of ice

What is a kiva?

This large underground chamber was used for religious ceremonies.

What is quipu?

These knotted colored strings were used to keep records.

The Inuits are more commonly known by this name.

What are eskimos?

What is Inti?

This was the name of the Incan sun god.

Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec ______.

What is sun god?

The Anasazi moved from pueblos to ________.

What are cliffs?

Who were the people of the first American civilization?

Who are the Olmecs?

True or False. Tikal was the largest Incan city.

What is false. It was the largest Mayan city.

Tenochtitlan was the _______ capital.

Aztec

This city was the capital of the Incan empire. All Incan roads led through this city.

What is Cuzco?

The early people who migrated to the Americas came from this continent.

What is Asia?

What is Peru.

The Incas lived in what is now the country of _____________.

Did the first civilizations emerge along the Mississippi River or the Mexican Gulf Coast?

The Mexican Gulf Coast

What were the “Chosen Women” trained to do?

Serve the sun god

Which civilization ruled the area that includedThe Andes mountains: the Mayas or Incas?

The Incas

Why did the Mayas develop an accurate solarcalendar: to record historical events or to hold religious ceremonies at the correct moment

To hold religious ceremonies

What happened to the people conquered by the Incas?

They were enlisted into the Incan armies.

Short answer. Choose 2. • Explain how people reached the Americas• Describe 4 achievements of Mayan civilization.• Describe Aztec religious beliefs. • Explain how the Incas united their large empire. • Explain why the culture of the people of the NW• coast differed from that of the Inuits

Essay – Choose 1• How were the religious beliefs of the Incas like those of the Aztecs? How were they different?2. Explain why Native American groups in NorthAmerica developed diverse cultures.