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Beringia
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an area of land currently under water between alaska and asia that early Ameicans walked across to the American content
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Environment
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includes everything that surrounds us: land, water, animals, vegetation, and minerals
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Natural Resources
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Resources found in nature or food, clothing, and shelter.
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Culture
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A peoples way of life including beleifs,customs, food, dwellings, and clothing
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Cultural Regions
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an area in which a simialar people share a simialar culture or language.
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Andes
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A Mountain Chain of Western South America
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Cuzco
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The Capital city of the Incan Empire, located in the present-day Peru.
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Census
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an official count of people in a certain place at a certain time
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How do we define race?
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Quipu
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a group of knotted strings use by the incans to record information
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Terraces
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steplike ledges cut into the mountains to make land suitable for farming
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Incas
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people of a South American Empire during the 1400s and 1500s
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Aztecs
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A People who lived in the Valley of Mexico
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Tenochtitlan (Teh nawch te tlahn)
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a caital city of the a
Aztecs built on a swamp |
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Mayas
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a people who established a great civilization in Middle America
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Slash-and-Burn Algriculture
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A farming techniqe in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertiize thee ground
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Maize
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corn
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Hieroglyphics
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the signs and symbols that made up a Mayan writing system
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Pacific Northwest Environment
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-Cultural Region extended from Southern Oregon to Canada
-Included Cascade Mountains -on Pacific Coast -Heavy rainfall and many storms -Cool summers and mild winters |
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Pacific Northest Cultural Traits
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-Lived in villages on the coast
-Hunted and gathered -Artisans: building and carving -totem poles |
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Pacific Northwest Food
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-Shellfish, seals, salmon, whales
-Deer -gathered other plants |
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Pacific Northwest Shelter
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-houses of bark
-large houses in villages |
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California Environment
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-different environments: Coastal foot hills, the coast, inland valley, desert, Western side of Siera Nevada mountan range
-warm, rainy winters, mild summers |
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California Cultural Traits
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-wove cooking baskets, sifters, fish traps, storage baskets, decorated baskets with clam shells and feathes
-hunted, fished, and, gathered -used bows and arrows |
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California Food
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-ate wild plants, fish, and a balance of animals in some areas
-gathered berries -salmon, shellfish, deer |
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California Shelter
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-simple homes made of bark: they would strip the bark using antlers
-In marshy areas they would use reeds draped over a framework of poles |
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Southwest Environment
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-dry, hot, not a lot of rain
-Canyons, low grass -near the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers |
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Southwest Cultural Traits
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-Nomadic desert hunters along Colorado River
-small groups hunted gathered and farmed they made clothes out of cotton to protect their skin -sang songs celebrating the environment |
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Southwest Food
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-Corn: they grounded corn into cornmeal they made it into bread
-People on the mesas planted squash, beans, and corn -farmers planted near naturally flooded areas -ate snakes, lizards, and small rodents -drank water from cactus -planted in rainy areas -grew corn, beans, and squash |
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Southwest Shelter
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made thick walled houses that protected them from summer heat an winter cold.
-made adobe houses out of clay -there towns (pueblos) looked like apartment buildings. |
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