Ch. 9, Sec. 1.

2. an important crop that became the most important food for the early Americans
4. constantly looked for food. These people fished, gathered nuts/roots, hunted...
6. volcanic glass
8. a shiny volcanic stone used by the Olmec to make polished mirrors
9. admored Toltecs, copied ways.
10. huge sheets of ice
11. a sculpture made by the Olmecs, made by basalt
13. served as important pack animals to the Moche
15. the first people to build a trading empire. It lasted for 800 years
16. the first empire in South America, founded in AD 1100s, Capitals centers around Cuzcocorn an important crop that became the most important food for the early Americans

1. ruled from AD 100s to AD 700s. Built canals that carried water. Had no written out language but but had artworks, instead.
3. land bridge between Asia and Alaska. It was names after Vitus Berling, a famous explorer.
5. "The place of the gods", mysterious decline around in A.D. 600s.
7. a period when temperatures dropped sharply
12. built the city Tula, held monopoly on obsisian, controlled trade tightly
14. another civilization, built in the rain forests Yucatan Peninsula