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12 Cards in this Set
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Hunter- gathers |
people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs |
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City state |
An independent city |
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Paleo indians |
The first Americans; crossed from Asia, and to North America, sometime between 12000 and 40000 years ago |
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Agricultural revolution |
Ancient shift from hunting and Gathering to the domestication of plants |
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Olmec |
First great Mesoamerican culture, flourished from approximately 1200 to 400 BC |
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Maya |
Mesoamerican civilization that arose to prominence about AD 300 |
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Toltec |
Civilization that dominated Central Mexico beginning about ad900 |
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Aztec |
Mexicana; Fierce Warrior Empire that dominated present-day Mexico in the Middle Ages |
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Inca |
South American civilization that controlled the Andes |
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Anasazi |
Civilizations that existed in the southwest of the present-day United States between AD 700 and 1300s |
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Mound builders |
Ancient civilization of the Eastern Woodlands of the present day United States |
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Hajj |
Trip made by a Muslims to the Islamic holy city of Mecca |
