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| One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian peoples, containing 30,000 residents in 1250 |
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| A population migration across oceans |
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| a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America, named after the Bering Straits |
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A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North American around 5000 b.c.
Ancestors of the Navajo and Apache |
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| a powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making, unlike anything found in the Old World |
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| Intensified hunting efforts brought on in response to lowered reproduction and survival rates of large animals |
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| the period roughly 10,000 to 2,500 years ago marked by the retreat of glaciers |
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| groups of allied families |
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| the region stretching from central Mexico to Central America |
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| a warrior people who dominated the Valley of Mexico from 1100 to 1521 |
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| dispersed settlements of Indian farmers in the South West |
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| impersonations of the ancestral spirits by Southwest Indians (Pueblos) |
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