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When did the people, known as Indians, first arrive in the Americas?   50,000 B.C.  
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Where did they come from?   Asia  
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What route did they use to reach the Americas?   They crossed the land bridge over the Bering strait  
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In time these people developed the most important crop in American history, what was it?   Corn  
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Other things they had learned how to cultivate are   Squash, beans, potatoes, tomatoes  
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Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Peru?   Inca  
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Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Yucatan Peninsula?   Maya  
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Which advanced Indian civilization developed in Central Mexico?   Aztec  
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What word means the history of the Americas before 1492?   Pre-Columbian  
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Experts who study the remains of vanished civilizations are ______________________.   Archeologist  
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The study of cultures of people, past, and present is ______________________.   Anthropology  
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Physicists can determine the age of items by using a method involving the rate of radioactivity of __________________.   Carbon 14  
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The Aztecs built their capital of Tenochtitlan where the modern city of ______________ is located. It was larger than ____________ in 1450   Mexico London  
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The Aztecs practiced ____________ ___________ which made them hated and feared.   Human Sacerfices  
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In 1521, the Aztecs were invaded and defeated by a Spanish conqueror, ____________.   Cortez  
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The ____________ in Peru had a huge empire of over ____________ people and over _________ miles in length.   Incas 6,000,000 2,000  
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Forced labor was used to build _________ over the ____________ Mountains that are still used today.   Roads Andes  
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The Inca were conquered by _______________ in 1531.   Francisco Pizarro  
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At the time of the arrival of Columbus in 1492, how many Indians lived north of the Rio Grande? ____________ How many languages were spoken? ________   1,0000,000+ 200+  
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One of the Eastern Woodland tribes were the Algonquians. They built walls of logs around their villages to protect themselves from their fierce enemies the _______________.   Iroquois  
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These Indians formed a powerful origination called ________________________________________ ______________________________________________.   Confederacy of the Five Nations  
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The members of the organization were ____________ ______________ ________________ ______________.   Seneca Cayuga Onondagas Oneida Mohawk  
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The sixth nation to join this organization at a later date was the _________________.   Tuscarora  
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