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Pangea

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Theory that all the continents were all together in to one mega continent

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After the flood, sea levels dropped and there was a land bridge between what two places? What was that land bridge called?

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Asia and North America

Beringia

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Why did the amscestors of the native Americans. Nimadic hunters. Come across the bridge?

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Followed the migrating animals

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Who was the last group

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The Inuit, Eskimo’s

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What was the significance of corn?

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Maize changed their way of life. It allowed them to settle down and start perminant communities.

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Name the four largest civilizations and where they’re from

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Olmec. Mexico
Inca. Peru
Aztec. Mexico
Mayans Central America

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What were theoldest groups in America

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Anasazi “ancient ones” and mound builders.

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Five major groups of native Americans

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Northwest
Southwest
Plains 
Eastern woodland and Great Lakes Indians
Southeastern
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First Europeans to the americas

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Vikings (Leif Erickson) Canada

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What sparked the age of discovery

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Marco polos adventures
Technology
Crusades

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Who was the first to go around Africa? Dark continent?

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Barthokonew Dias

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Who was vasco da gama

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First to reach India by going around Africa. Indies

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What happened as a result of columbuses discovery?

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A global economic system

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What did Europe America and Africa provide

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Europe. Provided markets and capital
Africa provided a labor force
America provided the raw materials and food

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Why would the world never be the same?

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The exchange of goods, ideas, people etc between Europe and the americas.

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What did the Americans introduce?

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Tobacco, corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate etc.

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Good things Europeans j to diced to Americans.

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Livestock cattle pigs HORSES
Sugar revolutionize the diet
Citrus prevented scurvy

and disease. Small pox, yellow fever, malaria.

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Northwest

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Walla Walla, nex lerce. Known for totem pole and potlatch

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South West

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Pueblo, Navaho, Apache

Known for kachina. Spirits

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Plains

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Sioux, Cheyenne. Known for the Mandela (spirit shield) dream catcher (spirit trap)

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Eastern woodland and Great Lakes indians

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Iroquois, mochican, Erie. Known for peace pipe, passport and treaty.

Three sister farming. Maize, beans, and squash.

Iroquois confederation.
Hiawatha -legendary leader
Five tribes and New York
Matrilineal
Possessions passed through the female line.
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South eastern

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Cherokee, Seminole, etc.

Known for corn festivals and war and piece chiefs.

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Nation state

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The form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity,

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Matrilineal.

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The form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side.

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Confederacy

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An alliance or League of Nations or people’s looser than a federation

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Primeval

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Concerning the earliest origin of things

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Saga

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A lengthy story or poem recounting the great deeds and adventures of a people and their heroes.

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Middlemen

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In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants who sell to customers.

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Caravel

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A small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails.

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Plantation

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A large scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor. They built up their own systematic traffic in slaves to work the sugar plantations.

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Ecosystem

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A naturally evolved network of relations among organisms in a stable environment.

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Demographic

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Concerning the general characteristics of a given population.

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Conquistador

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A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the americas.

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Capitalism

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An economic system characterized by private property, general free trade, and pen and accessible markets.

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Encomienda

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The Spanish labor system in which persons were held to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by the,.

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Mestizo

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A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry.

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Province

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Medium sized subunit of territory within a larger nation or empire.

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What was the geography of the North American continent shaped by?

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Glaciers of the great ice age

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