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