Key Terms

Beringia

a section of low-lying land between modern Alaska and Russia, now underwater, that once served as a land bridge between continents

Clovis culture

a culture consisting of mobile bands of hunter-gatherers who camped at resource-rich locations in modest populations across North America

Hopewell tradition

a widely dispersed mound-building tradition that emerged in the Eastern Woodlands around 200 BCE, linked by a network of trade routes

Mississippian tradition

a widely dispersed mound-building tradition that created a number of urban settlements linked by trading networks in the southeastern United States around 700

Nazca Lines

a group of geoglyphs made on the desert floor in southern Peru representing both geometric patterns and images of animals

Norte Chico

the culture of partially settled agricultural communities in the Andes region; also known as the Caral civilization

Pueblo architecture

a building style of the early American Southwest that relied on stone or wooden frames covered in adobe clay

Triple Alliance

an alliance formed in 1428 between the Aztecs and two neighboring city-states, Texcoco and Tlacopan