American history

2. a member of an ancient North American people of the southwestern US, who flourished between c.200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture is known as the Basket Maker period; the present-day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage.
3. or blood relations. Sometimes _______ ties were based on the mother's family
5. They began there rise around 400 BC there houses were pyramids,palaces and temples. Their peak or prime time was around AD 250 to 900.
8. the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
9. was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, before Christopher Columbus.
11. is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
13. the traditional dwelling of the Iroquois and other North American Indians.
16. was founded by the prophet Muhammad.
18. interchange, named for Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
19. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.

1. North American Indians who traditionally lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Their name for themselves means.
4. were an Arawak people who were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Puerto Rico.
6. the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
7. This group came to dominate central Mexico. They were known for builders, warriors, artisans.
10. were people believed in spiritual and healing powers. They called _______ the medicine men
12. They were known to conquer many neighboring people they believed in many gods. They also did human sacrifices. They took over around the 1400s
14. any of the Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th–11th centuries.
15. They were known to be called the mother culture of Mesopotamia. They were known for their art, religion, agriculture. They were engineers and also artists.
17. a group of close-knit and interrelated families (especially associated with families in the Scottish Highlands).