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How did the asian hunters enter north america?
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They entered over the land bridge
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they entered on foot
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Why did the asian hunters enter norht america?
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They were following the food that they were hunting, such as the wooly mammoth
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they were hungry
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Who did the Asian hunters find in the Americas when they arrived?
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they found native americans
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they were native
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what is the study of ancient peoples
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archaeology
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you should know this
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what wa left behindby the native americans
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artifacts
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what do the archeologists beleive the natve americans crossed onto america on?
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They believe they crosed over on the strip of land called beringia
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What is an ice age?
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along period of time when parts of the earth were covered with large ice sheets
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what hppened to the sea level during an ice age?
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the water level dropped
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what was uncovered during an ice age and what did it connect?
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the landbridge was uncovered and it connected siberia and alaska
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what are nomads?
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people who move from place to place, gathered grains and berries and hunted there food
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what were the most common hunted beasts bu the nomads?
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the sabertoth tiger and the wooly mammoth and the mastadon
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What were the earliest form of hunting tools?
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Carved peices of stone and bone and chipped rocks that were fastened onto poles to make spears
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which parts of the animal did the hunter families use?
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ALL PARTS
skin-clothing large ribs- shelter |
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As the ice melted, what happened that stoped more asianhunters from entering the americas?
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The wtaer lvel rose again and the ladnbridge was submerged.
The mammoths and large animals they were hunting began to dye out |
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what other sources of food did they come up with and how did they get it?
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they hunted smaller game such as deer, birds, and rabits. They also learned to fish using nets and traps. they continued to gather berries and grains.
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about 9,000 years ago, what did the people living in present dayMexico discover?
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how to make and early form of corncalled maize.
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what did the maize provide?
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a steady, reliable source of food
this enabled the early americans to settle and become farmers |
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what do scientists use to find out how old an artifact is?
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Carbon dateing
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ryhmes with
rarbon rating |
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what changed the lives of the early poeple and led them to a new culture?
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Agriculture
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because the poeple did not have to move around, the were able to...
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farm, create communitties , common customs and ways of protecting them selves
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migration-
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a movement of a large group of people into a new home land.
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civilization-
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highly dveloped communities
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the largest advanced early americans were the
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olmec, maya, Aztec
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the myans were a theocracy. a theocracy is a ...
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society ruled by religous leaders
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what are hyrogliphics?
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symbol and picures used to represent things, ideas and sounds
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HWat were the terraces?
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broad platforms into steep slopes so that they could build crops.
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what was a pueblos?
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it was a great stone dwelling,
the spanish explorers called it pueblos. |
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what was pueblo bonito?
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on of the most spectcular anasazi pueblos, in present day New Mexico
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what is a dtought and who does it affect the most?
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a drought is a long period of time of little rainfal and it affects the farmers the most because all their crops dry up.
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who were the adena?
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the hunters and gatherers who flourished in the Ohio valley by 800 B.C.
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The hopewell peopel poeple followed the adena and built what?
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Huge burial mounds in the shape of birds bears and snakes
one of them is the Grest Serpant Mound that is in the shape of a giant snake winding across the ground |
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Whta were the people who settled in the northern most part of north america in the lands around the artic ocean called
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the Inuit.
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what is adobe?
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sun-dried mud brick that the people of the southwest built thier home from
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