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15 Cards in this Set
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Native Americans are descendents of who
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Asian migrants
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Where did native americans travel from
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Siberia (modern Russia) across the Bering Strait through Alaska into Canada, the US and Mexico
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How did the natives survive
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by farming,hunting, and gathering
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What did the natives excel in
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art and craft work
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Those in fertile temperate regions develop what
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complex societies and religions
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Natives in rugged areas devoted their energy to what
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survival
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who gave Indians their name and why
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Christopher Columbus because he thought he was in the East Indies
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where did Columbus land
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the Bahamas
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what people were in Guatemala,Belize, and southern Mexico
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The Olmec, Maya, and the Aztec
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the Maya were superb what? and what did they discover
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mathmeticians and astronomers. they discovered the use of the zero
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what was one of the reasons the early natives fought each othere
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religion
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their gods were
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jaguar like beings, eagles, serpents, the sun
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what did their gods thirst for
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human blood
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what did some Mesoamerican deitiy demand from priests
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throw young women into pits and drag men on top of pyramids
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when did Olmec culture disappear
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AD 900
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