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15 Cards in this Set
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The oceans became shallower during the last Ice Age because...
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The water was frozen into giant glaciers
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The land bridge known as Beringia connected these two continents
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North America and Asia
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Stories that tell the Indian people's beliefs about the world and their place in it are known as....
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origin stories
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People were able to have a surplus of food after the invention of this.....
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agriculture
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The Olmec culture is known as a "Mother Civilization" because....
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It influenced many other cultures
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The people that built the pueblos were.....
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The Anasazi
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A small group of people who work together are called a .....
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band
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People that wander from place to place and have no settled homes are.....
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nomads
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Scientists that study cultures from long ago are called.....
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archaeologists
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The tool used to throw a spear....
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Atlatl
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Developed when people began to plant and grow their own food...
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agriculture
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Takes place when different cultures share ideas and goods...
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cultural diffusion
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A sandy kind of clay that is dried and used as bricks....
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adobe
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A special underground room used for religious ceremonies...
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kiva
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The development of agriculture made these things possible...
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crops developed, people stopped moving and built better homes, populations grew, jobs became specialized
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