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Unit 12 Walkthru

Directions: Scan pages 380-431 in your textbook and answer the questions below.

1. Look at the timeline on page 380. Approximately when did the first peoples arrive in the
Americas?

2. Look at the timeline on page 380When did the Mayans begin building large cities in the Americas?


3. Look at the timeline on page 380When did the Mayan classic Age end?

4. Write the Bid Idea of Chapter 14, Section 1:


5. What is Mesoamerica?

6. What is the land and weather like in Mesoamerica?


7. Look at the map on page 386. Which continent do historians think the first Americans came from?

8. What is maize?


9. Write the Big Idea from Chapter 14, Section 2:


10. What is obsidian?

11. Look at the map on page 391. List the 4 things that the Maya traded:
a.
b.
c.
d.

12. Who was Pacal and where was he buried?


13. Write the Big Idea for Chapter 14 Section 3:


14. What is an observatory?


15. What is the Popol Vuh?


16. Why is the Popol Vuh important?
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17. Write the Big Idea for Chapter 15 Section 1:



18. What land did the Aztecs live in?


19. What is Tenochitilan?


20. What is a causeway?


21. Look at the picture on page 412. Who did the two temples worship?


22. What is a conquistador?

23. Who was Herman Cortez and what did he do?


24. Write the Big Idea for Chapter 15 Section 2:




25. Look at the picture on page 416-418. List the 8 different groups of people in Aztect society:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.

26. Write the Big Idea for Chapter 15 Section 3:



27. What continent did the Incas live on?


28. What is Quechua?


29. What animal did the Incas raise?


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30. Who was Francisco Piazarro and what did he do?


31. Write the Big Idea for Chapter 15 Section 4:



32. Look at the picture of Machu Picchu on pages 428-429. What crops did the Incas grow?


Directions: The answers for the questions below are NOT found in the textbook. You have to use
what youve learned today to answer them.

33. List the 3 different cultures/peoples that we will be learning about:
a.
b.
c.

34. On the map below, mark the areas that the 3 different groups of people lived:

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