Unit 1 Review 7th Grade Social Studies

First hand account of an event: reliable sources of historic information

An advanced civilization that united its empire with a complex system or roads and rope bridges

Someone who studies past people/cultures by examining artifacts.

Man-made objects left by people if the past

The first Americans arrived to an unsettled continent and survived as...

The first Americans were ___________ and traveled in search of food and shelter

_____: When nomadic tribes learned to plant crops like maize (corn) they were able to develop permanent settlements.

Most widely accepted theory of how the first Americans arrived from Asia to North America.

The ______ people were the earliest known civilization in the Americas.

Modern day Mexico City, the ancient Aztec city was at the center of Aztec culture an served as the empire's capital