US History (Lesson 1)

4. represent one of the largest and most complex societies in the Southwest.
6. a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE to 100 CE, in a time known as the Early Woodland period.
7. best known for: their sophisticated dwellings. creating a complex network of roadways, transportation systems, and communication routes. making ornate and highly functional pottery.
8. own for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well
10. called Tawantinsuyu by its subjects, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America
11. describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period

1. Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices
2. best known for their longhouses. Each longhouse was home to many members of a Haudenosuanee family.
3. the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization; created a thriving civilization in the humid rain forest along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
5. widely known for their totem poles, elaborate wooden houses, and seaworthy log canoes, as well as for dramatizing myths and performing magic tricks
8. a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period; built a dynamic culture in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula
9. created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peruswept into the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s