Exploring and Settling America
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- A.D. 1200
- Mississippians build active culture on banks of Mississippi River.
- About 23,000 B.C., 1/3 of earth's surface was covered with huge sheets of ice called
- glaciers
- The surface of the oceans was about ____ feet lower than today in 23,000 B.C.
- 300
- The land bridge existed until about ___________ B.C., when the temperatures rose and caused the glaciers to melt.
- 12,000
- Over time, _________ from the melting glaciers covered the land bridge.
- water
- The land bridge from Asia to North America that hunters crossed was in an area called the
- Bering Strait
- The hunters who walked across the land bridge into North America were the ancestors of the people we now call
- Native Americans
- Very important periods of history are called
- epochs
- The Beringian epoch was from ___________ B.C. when the main group of hunters came to North America.
- 13,000-9500
- _________ covered most of Canada, _________ stretched across the United States, and ___________ swept into Mexico.
-
glaciers
forests
grasslands - North America had many of the animals hunters had followed from Asia such as
- wooly mammoths
- Warming weather changed these lands during the Paleo-Indian epoch from _____________ B.C.
- 9500-6000
- The western grasslands of North America became hot __________, and large grass-eating animals died out for want of food.
- deserts
- Hunters made smaller and better _______ to hunt for food.
- weapons
- American Indians hunted _________, _________, and deer.
-
bison
caribou - American Indians lived off the land during the Archaic epoch from __________ B.C.
- 6000-1000
- People who lived near water built _______ for fishing.
- boats
- During the Archaic epoch, American Indians also learned to plant and harvest ________, _________, and other crops.
-
corn
beans - Planting and harvesting is called
- agriculture
- New food crops allowed American Indians to grow in __________.
- number
- American Indians developed into many different cultures during the Postarchaic epoch from ___________ B.C.
- 1000B.C.-A.D. 1500)
- By A.D. 1500, American Indians wore ___________ made of everything from animal skins to cloth made from _________.
-
clothing
plants - American Indians from the Postarchaic epoch lived in simple huts made of _____ bark and ____, or in wooden houses on stilts
-
tree
mud - The Chipewyans hunted _________ across the cold, bare regions of what is now Canada.
- caribou
- The _________ of Mexico grew into powerful societies. The center of Aztec culture was the city of Tenochtitlan.
- Aztec
- In the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, __________ people lived among canals, temples and islands.
- 100,000