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What does this map depict
The earliest routes to the Americas circa 16,000 BCE.
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Early civilizations used this natural recourse to make fire, build shelters, make baskets, and produce specialized tools.
What is wood?
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They Established the Capitol city of Cuzco
Who are the Inca?
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The early civilizations relied on these three crops to meet their needs.
What are the three sisters?
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Known as cliff dwellers, this ancient civilization built large shelters in the side of cliffs.
Who are the Ancestral Pueblo?
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What early civilization is depicted in this map?
Mississippian
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This civilization made igloos, constructed fur coats, and domesticated animals to adapt to extreme cold temperatures.
Who are the Arctic people specifically the Inuit.
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Settled in regions what is now Arizona, Utah, Nevada.
Who are the Ancestral Pueblo?
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This crop stopped weeds from growing in order to help make other crops prosper.
What is squash?
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Cut large stones to build massive pyramids.
Who are the Maya and Aztec
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What early cavillation occupied this region of the Caribbean Islands?
Taino people
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They traveled to places where food was readily available, and if it became scarce; they would follow the migration patterns of animals.
Who are nomadic tribes?
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Studied the stars and became renowned astronomers for today's scientists.
Who are the Maya and the Aztec?
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This crop provided a long shaft for other plants to climb to get additional sunlight.
what is corn?
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The Maya contributed this to historians, mathematicians, scientists, writers, and artists.
What is Zero?
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You can find the Maya, Aztec, and Inca in this region.
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These people relied on the abundant resources of salmon, herring, and seaweed to survive.
Who are the northwest tribes? Specifically, the Kwakiutl?
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They were united under the Confederacy of American Indian nations in what is now the northeastern region of the U.S.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
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This crop adds an immense amount of nitrogen to the soil to help make other plants prosper.
What are beans?
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Considered the best early architects, this civilization built bridges before any other civilization
Who are the Inca
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You will find ruins of the Ancient Civilization of the Pueblo in this region.
What is Southwestern North America. Ex?
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Civilizations with large populations used this practice to meet the demand of the people.
What is Agriculture?
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The Mississippian were known for building these large structures.
What are mounds?
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Over farming and depletion of natural recourses caused this great empire to fall.
Who are the Maya?
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Founded Cahokia, the largest city in the Americas, in 1100 CE in modern day Illinois.
Who are the Mississippian?