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Chicago ( or ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7million residents, it is also the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago has often been called a global architecture capital. Chicago is considered one of the most important business centers in the world.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which razed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild on the damage. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, leading Chicago to become among the five largest cities in the world by 1900. During this period Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the eventual creation of the steel-framed skyscraper.

1. How many people live in Chicago?
2. What is Chicagoland?
3. How many people live there?
4. What was early Chicago near?
5. What water bodies did the portage connect?
6. How many people had nowhere to live after the fire?
7. How many actual houses were ruined?
8. True or False: The population size never recovered from the disaster.
9. What movement started in Chicago?
10. What tall structure was invented there?
11. True or False: The Baroque school of architecture started there.
12. What School do we know started there?
13. Is Chicago the biggest city in the U.S.?
14. How many are bigger?
15. Which ones?
16. Is there a bigger city in Illinois?
17. What about in the Midwest?
18. Which county has its seat there?
19. What is Chicago formally called?
20. When did the fire happen?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. over 2.7million
2. The Chicago metropolitan area
3. nearly 10 million
4. a portage
5. the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed
6. over 100,000
7. unknown
8. false
9. the City Beautiful Movement
10. steel-framed skyscraper
11. unknown
12. the Chicago School of architecture
13. no
14. Two
15. unknown
16. no
17. no
18. Cook County.
19. the City of Chicago
20. 1871

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Joe was moving to a different state. He wanted to make the move without spending much money. He thought about driving in his own vehicle, but didn't do that. So Joe found a shipping company that shipped boxes on trailer trucks. First, Joe packed all his stuff in boxes. Then, he borrowed a small truck from a friend. He brought his belongings to the company's location with the small truck. At the company's building, he packed his stuff into a trailer. After all his belongings were in the trailer, he sealed off the trailer with a wooden wall.

The company filled the rest of the trailer with their own stuff. Then they drove it to the same town where Joe was moving. After Joe flew to his new town, he borrowed another small truck. He drove to the company's location in his new town. There he took his stuff out of the trailer. He carried it to his new house in the small truck. It was more work than using a normal moving company, but Joe saved a lot of money.

1. Where was Joe moving?
2. Did he want to move without spending much money?
3. Did he use his car to move?
4. How did he decide to move?
5. What did he pack his stuff in?
6. What did he borrow?
7. Who from?
8. Where did he pack his stuff at the company's building?
9. Then what did he do?
10. What did the company do first?
11. What did they do next?
12. How did he get to his new town?
13. Did he borrow another small truck?
14. Where did he drive in the new town?
15. What did he do there?
16. What did he do next?
17. How?
18. Was it more work?
19. Was it a normal moving company?
20. Did he save money?
21. How much?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. to a different state
2. Yes.
3. No.
4. By using a shipping company.
5. Boxes.
6. A small truck.
7. A friend.
8. A trailer.
9. Sealed off the trailer with a wooden wall.
10. Filled the rest of the trailer with their own stuff
11. Drove it to the same town where Joe was moving
12. He flew.
13. Yes.
14. To the company's location.
15. Took his stuff out of the trailer.
16. Carried it to his new house.
17. In the small truck.
18. Yes.
19. No.
20. but Joe saved a lot of money.
21. A lot.

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Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently, and the second in the Americas along with Norte Chico (Caral-Supe) in present-day northern coastal Peru.

As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. Beginning as early as 7000 BC, the domestication of cacao, maize, beans, tomato, squash and chili, as well as the turkey and dog, caused a transition from paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer tribal grouping to the organization of sedentary agricultural villages. In the subsequent Formative period, agriculture and cultural traits such as a complex mythological and religious tradition, a vigesimal numeric system, and a complex calendric system, a tradition of ball playing, and a distinct architectural style, were diffused through the area. Also in this period, villages began to become socially stratified and develop into chiefdoms with the development of large ceremonial centers, interconnected by a network of trade routes for the exchange of luxury goods, such as obsidian, jade, cacao, cinnabar, "Spondylus" shells, hematite, and ceramics. While Mesoamerican civilization did know of the wheel and basic metallurgy, neither of these technologies became culturally important.

1. What civilization was aware of the wheel?
2. Were they familiar with metallurgy?
3. Did either of those make much impact on Mesoamerica?
4. Is it diverse in culture?
5. When did they start growing cacao?
6. Was that the same time as maize?
7. What animals were being domesticated around that time?
8. That helped transform them from a hunter-gatherer tribe to what?
9. What period came after that?
10. Besides a vigesimal numeric system, what's another thing that came to be?
11. Did they create a calendar?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Mesoamerican civilization
2. yes
3. no
4. yes
5. as early as 7000 BC
6. yes
7. turkeys and dogs
8. to sedentary agricultural villages
9. the Formative period
10. a complex calendric system
11. yes