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the first americans
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| Question | answer | chapter/section # |
|---|---|---|
| Where and how did the First Americans migrate to? | The First Americans migrated on foot and went from Siberia in Asia to present day Alaska | 1.2 |
| What is the beringia strait and how did it help the First Americans migrate to Alaska? | The beringia strait is a strip of ocean that connected Asia and Alaska and it helped them so that they could walk across the bridge and not have to freeze to death in the ocean | 1.2 |
| Between 10,000 to 20,000 years ago some of the hunters reached what? | America | 1.2 |
| Why did the hunters have to start finding new food supply, new clothing, and new shelter? | Because mammoths began to die off because of either disease over hunting or the change in climate | 1.2 |
| What animals were hunted in the summer and winter? | Caribou in the summer and sea mammals in the winter | 1.3 |
| What are iglus and how are they made? | Iglus are temporary shelters and are made from blocks of snow | 1.3 |
| About 7,000 years ago what crops did they learn to farm? | Squash, chili, peppers, beans, and corn | 1.3 |
| By the 1400's 1 to 2 million American Indians lived in 10 major cultural regions in northern what? | Northern Mexico | 1.3 |
| If need be the American Indians would fight for what? | Their land | 1.4 |
| Why did the American Indians give thanks to the animals they killed and honor the crops? | They gave thanks to the killed animals and honored their crops because they believed each part of nature had its own spirit | 1.4 |
| When did the Europeans and other groups start arriving in North America? | 500 years ago | 1.1 |