Chapter 1 Questions

Question 0

How did people get to America?

Answer 0

Land bridge between Asia and Alaska Beringia

Question 1

When did people first arrived in America?

Answer 1

22,000 years ago

Question 2

Where did the first people come from?

Answer 2

Asia

Question 3

What happened when the ice melted and covered the LandBridge?

Answer 3

The people change from hunting large animals to gathering nuts and berries and fish

Question 4

What did people in Mexico grow?

Answer 4

They grew maize/corn then farming spread and some people gave up being nomadic some didn’t

Question 5

Facts about Olmec

Answer 5

Created a civilization and humid rain forest mysteriously collapsed around 400 BC included the Maya

Question 6

Facts about Maya

Answer 6

Civilization between 250 A.D. and 900 located on Guatemala and Yucatán peninsula

Question 7

Hohokam and Anasazi

Answer 7

Desert areas/Southwest hohokam- river valleys in central Arizona anasazi- 4 corner region

Question 8

What did the Mississippians build?

Answer 8

Burial mounds and pyramids

Question 9

What did the kashaya pomo hunt

Answer 9

Waterbirds

Question 10

Facts about the Kwakiutl

Answer 10

Relied on ocean hundred whales and seals and salmon made totem poles from forests

Question 11

Facts about the pueblo

Answer 11

Build adobe houses grow corn and beans