Americas Before Columbus

4. The earliest mesoamerican civilization we know about(1500-300 BCE), known as the“People of the Land of Rubber.” and known for their large stone head carvings.
5. united and centralized many tribes in the Southwest United States for over 300 years. Built adobe houses.
7. midwestern peoples whose nobles built their houses on the terraces of a large, pyramid-like mounds. Some said to be over 700 feet tall.
9. Northeast of Modern Mexico City, existed one of the worlds largest cities at the time, and was known as the “Place of the Gods,”
10. militaristic south american empire who practiced enforced conformity on their subjects, and were known to be superb road builders and architects.

1. Villages consisted of longhouses surrounded by wooden fences,150-200 feet in length, housed about a dozen families. And their villages were made up of Clans- groups of related families.
2. Native tribes that lived West of the Mississippi River basin, grew beans, squash, and corn along river valleys, and the Men left villages in the summer to hunt buffalo.
3. most advanced pre-columbian amerindian people . Posessed an understanding of mathematics which included the concept of zero and often seen as more advanced than European mathematics in the 12th century.
6. The lives of the ruling elites revolved around conquest and continual warfare. They carried militarism and human sacrifice to unprecedented extremes.
8. Often called Eskimos, the name they call themselves means "the people."