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Chapter 9
The Americas: A Separate World
Term | Definition |
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Beringia | Ancient land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia into the Americas |
Ice Age | Cold period in which huge ice sheets spread outward from the polar regions, the last one of which lasted from 1,900,000 to 10,000 BC |
Maize | Cultivated cereal grain that bears its kernels on large ears-usually called corn in the United States |
Mesoamerica | An area extending from central Mexico to Honduras, where several of the ancient complex societies of the Americas developed |
Olmec | Earliest-known Mesoamerican civilization, which flourished around 1200 BC and influenced later societies throughout the region |
Nazca | A civilization that flourished on what is now now the southern coast of Peru from 2000 BC to 600 AD |