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| Anasazi homes or villages |
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| Cahokia is nearby this present-day US city |
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| a form of government in which the society is ruled by religious leaders |
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| a highly developed culture with organized laws |
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| a leveled piece of land on a mountian for farming |
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| a movement of a large number of people |
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| according to the Maya calendar, in what year will the world end? |
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| an ancient form of writing using symblos and pictures |
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| an early form of corn grown by Native Americans |
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| the Mayans had a symbol for zero |
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| give one example of how the Maya math system was more complex than the Romans |
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| land bridge possibly crossed by the First Amreicans |
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| people who move from place to place |
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| string calculating device created by the Incas |
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| sun dried bricks made of clay and sand |
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| the first major civilization in the Americas |
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| this civilization built large mounds of dirt |
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| this civilization built stone-paved roads and bridges over mountains |
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| this civilization built their homes out of adobe |
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| this civilization commonly traded jade and turquoise |
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| this civilization is well-known today for its gold and valuables |
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| this civilization used human sacrifice to appease the sun god |
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| this civiliztion lived along the Pacific Coast in S. America |
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| this civiliztion lived in present-day Belize, Honduras and Guatemala |
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| this civiliztion lived in present-day Central Mexico |
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| this civiliztion lived in present-day Missouri |
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| this civiliztion lived in the four corners region of the US |
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| this one achievement allowed the Anasazi to live successfully in the American southwest |
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| this was the largest Mound Builder city |
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| the development of agriculture |
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| what single achievement allowed the Native Americans to settle down and live it cities |
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| which civilization created the Nazca lines? (no, not the aliens) |
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| which civilization lived on an island in Lake Texcoco |
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| which of the civilizations were conquered by the Spanish? |
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| which of the early civilization do most Mexicans identify with today? |
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| which of the early civilizations does the book call the largest |
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| which of the early native civilizations that we studied would have been considered theocracies? |
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