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Path to the Americas

Path to the Americas. 8-4. I. Beginning of the Americas. A. 25,000 years ago – no people in the Americas B. Hunting-and-food-gathering bands began to cross into the Americas from Asia 1. over a land bridge formed during Ice Age

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Path to the Americas

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  1. Path to the Americas 8-4

  2. I. Beginning of the Americas • A. 25,000 years ago – no people in the Americas • B. Hunting-and-food-gathering bands began to cross into the Americas from Asia • 1. over a land bridge formed during Ice Age • 2. large amounts of water froze into glaciers that they could cross • 3. now it is covered by the Bering Strait

  3. C. Why they came: • 1. search for food (followed grass-grazing animals that already crossed) • 2. collected wild plants • D. Spread all over the Americas (reached the bottom of South America by about 9000 B.C.) • E. About 7000 B.C., the last Ice Age ended • 1. climate became hotter and drier • 2. large game almost disappeared • 3. people had to find food in other ways

  4. F. By 6000 B.C., people in Tehuacan (south of present-day Mexico City) developed the technique of farming • G. 3000 years later, they had thousands of farming villages throughout the Americas • *most important crop was maize - corn • H. Between 3000-1000 B.C.: • 1. people developed skills like weaving & pottery making • 2. grew peanuts, tomatoes, & potatoes • 3. built irrigation systems for a growing population

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