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sedentary
settled agricultural life (more permanent)
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endemic
native; belonging to a region
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Bering Strait/ Beringia
the passage that the hunters crossed to Alaska (12,000 yrs ago)
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Cahokia
- located near St. Louis
- by 1000, major control of trade, shops and crafts, and regions & political activities
- height- 1150 (6 miles)
- populations 15,000
- sharp class divisions
- built mounds (large fortifications); didn't have large army
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mesoamerica
- central american countries
- thrived on corn
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neolithic revolution
- transition from hunting and gathering way of life to one based on agriculture
- hunting/gathering ---> farming
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Cro-Magnon Man
- peoples who most resemble us in their aptitude for tools and facility for language (50,000 yrs ago)
- identified after bones and tools were found in a cave in france
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clovis hunters
- slaughtered herds of animals with sharp stone projectiles
- named after blades first found at Clovis, New Mexico
- may be responsible for the demise of big mammals
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archiac peoples
- descendants of Clovis (had to make due with scarcity)
- adapted to particular habitssearched for game continuously- fish, small mammals, nuts, deer, bear, caribou
- discovered sunflower seeds and sumpweed edible
- first us inhabitants to domesticate plants
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anasazi
- colorado plateau
- abandoned hunting grounds and settled near rivers
- dammed gullies to capture run off from flash floods
- sun and water central to beliefs
- carved villages into sandstone and cliffs
- built tryons and villages (Pueblo Bonito)
- predecessors of Navajo
- AZ & NM
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Leif Ericson
- Norseman
- sailed along coast of Greenland to shores of Labrador (1000 c)- little came from expedition
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moundbuilders
- adena- ohio, miss river valey
- hopewell- OH, Illinois
- aztalan- southwest WI
- poverty people- louisiana
- etowah- Miss
- moundville- AL
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