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19 Cards in this Set
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Amerindians |
The first migrants to come to north america |
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Beringia |
Land bridge that connected Northeast Asia and Alaska |
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Clovis culture |
Earliest known hunting culture dating between about and 9500 and 8900 BCE |
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Paleo Indians |
Used Clovis points and smaller Stone implements that they used for preparing small the game for their cooking as well as skinning and Tanning hides used for clothing |
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Folsom points |
Replace Clovis points smaller |
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Atlatls |
Spears attached with the Folsom points |
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Archaic Period |
8000 and 2000 BCE people were forced to rely more on Gathering wild plants as their primary source of food |
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Woodland civilizations |
The Neolithic Revolution north of the Rio Grande River |
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Adena culture |
Located in the region that now includes Indiana Ohio Kentucky Pennsylvania New York and West Virginia what distinguished the Adena from other Woodland civilizations with a beer Parkinson Pottery Styles they shared Woodland civilization |
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Maize cultivation |
Indian corn cultivation |
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Irrigation systems |
A network of tunnels that Supply the area with water 2 fertilize the soil |
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Llamas |
Andean people eat the meat of this |
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Pit house |
A house dug in a pit, uses sticks thatched with branches and leaves |
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Olmec civilization |
Excessive trade networks the same disseminated goods and function as a catalyst for cultural Exchange in mesoamerica |
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Chavin civilization |
Excessive trade networks disseminate good and function as a catalyst for cultural Exchange in South America |
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Peruvian textiles |
Important to the Andean society |
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Chain de wántar |
The capital city of the chavin civilization |
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Austronesian |
The ancestor of today's polynesians, Indonesians, and Malaysians |
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Lapita culture |
The second stage of cultural development in the islands north of new guina |
