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| Name 3 things researches used to support the theory of American Indians migrating from Asia. |
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-Similarities in teeth
-Physical appearence
-The study of viruses |
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The warming of the climate created ice-free corridors that allowed hunters to migrate into the North American interior. |
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| What did the artifacts found at Monte Verde in Chile indicate? |
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| People had established communities in the Americas before the glacial sheet melted. |
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| Who was involved in the second migration from Asia into North America? |
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| Hunters from the Stone Age and Plano cultures both did what? |
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| Stampede buffalo herds over cliffs. |
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| The era from roughly 10,000 to 2,500 years ago in North America is called the what? |
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Desert culture included which of these?
-Bow and arrow use
-Intensified plant food collecting
-Social heirarchy
-Pottery making |
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| Intensified collection of plant foods |
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| Desert culture foraging encouraged what? |
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| Consensus decision making |
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| What was the primary function of a clan chief? |
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| Supervising the storing and harvesting of crops |
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| Who developed the first irrigation system in America north of Mexico? |
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| T or F: The earliest tools found in North America are similar to artifacts found in Europe and Asia from the same period. |
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| Were Clovis tools similar to those of the Europeans? |
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| T or F: Forest efficiancy included cutting down systematic trees. |
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| T or F: Even until the late Archaic period, communities in the Northeast remained nomadic. |
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| How did the Mississippian culture come about in the 7th-8th centuries CE? |
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| They developed improved maize varieties |
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| How large-scale was warfare among Indians? |
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| It could include organized armies and fortified settlements |
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| T or F: The Mohawks, Oneidas, and Senecas were aell Iroquis cheifdoms. |
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