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What does The Land Bridge Theory suggest? |
Hunting groups traveled to North America across Beringia |
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Which of these events happened first? - The giant animals starved and gradually died out - Nomadic people began to settle in communities - The Ice Age ended and the climate warmed, causing the glaciers to melt - Ancient people started planting crops and developing more advanced civilizations |
The Ice Age ended and the climate warmed, causing the glaciers to melt |
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Which civilizations were divided into social classes? |
The Olmecs and the Mayans |
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Which early American civilizations lived in groups of houses called pueblos? |
The Anasazi |
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Which environment required the Southwest Indians to adapt their entire way of life to it, planting crops such as corn and storing the surplus? |
The dry, desert environment |
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Who were the best-known traders among the Northwest Coast Indians? |
The Chinooks- they owned the river and were the first to establish a common trading language |
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Which group of people built dugouts to hunt whales? |
The Makahs |
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Why did the Plains Indians use every part of the buffalo they hunted? |
They relied upon the buffalo as one of their most important resources |
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What is a tepee? |
A cone-shaped tent made of wooden poles covered with buffalo skins |
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What did the Algonquins and the Iroquois have in common? |
They were both from the Eastern Woodlands area |
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What kind of story tells about the beginnings of Native American People? |
An Origin Story |
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Ancient Indians gradually began to plant seeds and grow food crops, beginning the practice of what? |
Agriculture |
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A food ______ meant the survival for the Pueblo people during times of drought |
Surplus |
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The Chinooks and other Northwest Coast Indians showed their wealth by holding ______ . |
Potlatches |
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The Chinooks and other Northwest Coast Indians showed their wealth by holding ______What is grassy earth held together by roots, cut into blocks or mats and used to cover lodges of the Plains Indians? |
Sod |
