People of the past
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. Vikings
A. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes (plural)
2. Mongols
B. Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries (plural)
3. Phoenicians
C. A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback (plural)
4. Romans
D. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (plural)
5. Victorians
E. An inhabitant of the ancient ___ Empire (plural)
6. Greeks
F. United States operatic soprano (plural)
7. Egyptians
G. A member of the nomadic peoples of ___ (plural)
8. Cowboys
H. The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their (plural)
9. Normans
I. A person who lived during the reign of ___ (plural)
10. Aztecs
J. The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages (plural)
11. Mayas
K. The ancient and now extinct language of ___ under the Pharaohs (plural)
12. Incas
L. A member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C (plural)