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Introduction to Native Americans

Introduction to Native Americans. Mrs. Civitella. Paleo-Indians. 10,000 years ago the Ice Age ended, sea levels rose, and the land bridge was closed The people continued to migrate throughout North, Central, and South America

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Introduction to Native Americans

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  1. Introduction to Native Americans Mrs. Civitella

  2. Paleo-Indians 10,000 years ago the Ice Age ended, sea levels rose, and the land bridge was closed The people continued to migrate throughout North, Central, and South America By 1492 it is estimated that 54 million people lived in the Americas with more than 2,000 languages with distinctly different cultures

  3. Planting of corn settled nomadic tribes into villages • By 1,000 A.D. the growing of corn, beans, and squash reached the eastern seaboard of North America • The teaming of these three agricultural products is known as three-sister farming resulted in: • a high protein diet • fertile soil • high population densities in North America

  4. The world known to Europe, 1492

  5. Mercantilism Exports > Imports

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