SOURCES
A historian’s book analyzing letters, speeches, and photographs from the past is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
The Mayans settled in dense forest regions mainly located in this part of the world.
What is Central America?
These are negative conditions such as war, famine, or lack of jobs that force people to leave their home country.
What are push factors?
A birth certificate or government document is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
Historians believe early people moved from Asia into North America while searching for this basic need.
What is food?
This term describes the movement of people from one place to another, permanently.
What is migration?
This type of source analyzes, interprets, or summarizes information from primary sources
What is a secondary source?
The frozen land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age was called this.
What is Beringia (or the Bering Strait)?
Better job opportunities, higher wages, and improved education are examples of these migration factors.
What are pull factors?
Textbooks, encyclopedias, biographies, and documentary films are all examples of this category of sources.
What are secondary sources?
This period caused very cold climates and made food difficult to obtain in many parts of the world, especially Asia.
What is the Ice Age?
This type of factor encourages people to move by offering positive opportunities.
What are pull factors?
Unlike secondary sources, these sources may be subjective because they reflect personal perspectives or direct observation at the time an event occurred.
What are primary sources?
Honduras, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, and the Yucatán Peninsula were areas settled by this civilization.
Who were the Mayans?
Poor healthcare and lack of services in a home country would most likely act as this type of factor.
What is a push factor?