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| What is true about the Beringa land bridge today? |
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| The land is covered by water from the glacial melt at the end of the Ice Age. |
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| The Moche people prospered because they |
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| Why did the Maya choose to settle in the Peten? |
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| It had a good water supply. |
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| What had to happen before people in America could begin farming? |
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| The Ice Age had to end,the climate had to get warmer, and it had to discovered that planted seeds would grow into edible crops. |
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| Most Spanish conquistadors came from |
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| How did the Spanish explorers defeat the Aztec? |
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| With guns, horses, and an epidemic. |
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| Portuguese explorers were different from Spanish explorers because they focused on |
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| exploring the coast of Africa. |
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| What did the Beringia land bridge use to connect? |
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| What were the results of the Mayan religion? |
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| Human sacrifice, a strict social class system for their society, and the building of huge pyramids were the result of the Mayan religion. |
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| Why did Montezuma wait to attack the invading Spaniards? |
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| He thought Cortes was a god. |
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| Name one major accomplishment for the Inca leader Pachacuti. |
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| He built a huge ancient empire. |
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| Why did Maya seek captives in war? |
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| To work in the fields and to offer as human sacrifices to gods |
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Which civilization appeared first in the Americas? |
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| How did the earliest prehistoric peoples survive in the Americas? |
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| How were the farming techniques of the Inca and the Aztec similar? |
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| They both used irrigation and fertilizers. |
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| Why did the conquistadors came to the Americas? |
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| Desribe the social class in the Aztec Empire. |
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| It could change with an act of bravery in war and was inherited. |
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| Where were the Mayan city-states located? |
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| in the dense forests of the Peten |
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| Who held the sole right to trade in obsidian? |
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