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How early Americans reached North and South America
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Bering Strait land bridge
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The lifestyle that encouraged Indians to cross the land bridge
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Nomadic; following food and herds
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How early Americans reached North and South America
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The lifestyle that encouraged Indians to cross the land bridge
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The most complex Indian communities living in South America
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This crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer societies into settled farm communities
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Items desired from Persia & China
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3 motives for Spanish Exploration
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The area in which Columbus landed
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Most people in the Americas lived in this type of settlement by the time of Christopher Columbus.
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Tribes that settled in the Southwest; had culture based on farming & irrigation systems with permanent buildings
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Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on hunting & fishing
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Tribe that was nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans & squash
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3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe?
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A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests
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Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family.
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A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia)
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Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar.
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(1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky.
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Their empire stretched from what is today Ecuador to central Chili in the Andes Mountain region of South America. Called the Children of the Sun.
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Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
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Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge.
