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    Major theories on how the first people came to the Americas include that Southeast Asians sailed across the Pacific Ocean to North America, Europeans came thousands of years before Columbus, and nomadic hunters crossed Beringia into North America over 12,000 years ago and eventually spread across North and South America. Archaeologists have found artifacts and ruins, and molecular biologists have used DNA analysis to establish genetic links between modern Native Americans and other ancient cultures. Some early Paleo-Indian culture groups in Mesoamerica and South America included the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca, while groups in what is now the United States included the Anasazi in the southwest and the Mississippian Mound

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    Major theories on how the first people came to the Americas include that Southeast Asians sailed across the Pacific Ocean to North America, Europeans came thousands of years before Columbus, and nomadic hunters crossed Beringia into North America over 12,000 years ago and eventually spread across North and South America. Archaeologists have found artifacts and ruins, and molecular biologists have used DNA analysis to establish genetic links between modern Native Americans and other ancient cultures. Some early Paleo-Indian culture groups in Mesoamerica and South America included the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca, while groups in what is now the United States included the Anasazi in the southwest and the Mississippian Mound

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    History | Unit : American Beginnings | Lesson : Peopling the Americas

    Lesson Answer Key


    Peopling the Americas
    Read: Reading Guide

    1. Describe three major theories that attempt to explain how the first people came to the Americas.
    Major theories on the peopling of the Americas include: 1) Southeast Asians sailed across the Pacific
    Ocean to North America. 2) Europeans came to the Americas thousands of years before Columbus. 3)
    Nomadic hunters crossed Beringia into North America more than 12,000 years ago. Over time, nomadic
    people migrated across North America, moving east and south, eventually spreading across the
    continents of North and South America.

    2. How do we know what we know about these early peoples?


    Answers could include: 1) Archaeologists have found bits of broken pottery, pieces of stone tools,
    splinters of bone, and ruins from ancient Native American population sites. 2) Molecular biologists have
    used DNA analysis to establish genetic links between modern Native Americans and culture groups from
    other continents.

    3. Name at least three Paleo-Indian culture groups that existed in Mesoamerica or South America.
    • Olmec
    • Maya
    • Aztec
    • Inca

    4. Name two Paleo-Indian culture groups that existed in what is now the United States and give one or two facts
    describing the location, economy, and way of life of each group.

    Culture groups and facts include:

    Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi):


    • located in the American southwest
    • ancestors of modern-day Pueblo tribes, including the Hopi and the Zuni
    • cultivated corn in irrigated fields
    • built adobe buildings on mesas and on the sides of cliffs
    • severe drought between 1270 and 1300 brought an end to the Anasazi

    Mississippian Mound Builders:


    • located along the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers
    • grew corn
    • constructed protective earthworks around their villages
    • buried tribal leaders in ceremonial mounds
    • carried on trade with other tribes over great distances
    • built a large city at Cahokia, Illinois that grew in size to around 20,000 people
    • built large temples and elegant homes
    • society included noblemen, politicians, and priests

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    History | Unit : American Beginnings | Lesson : Peopling the Americas

    5. Give one reason why historians and archaeologists know little about many of the Native American cultures
    that existed at the time Europeans arrived in the Americas.
    Europeans brought diseases to which Native Americans had no immunities. A devastating pandemic
    resulted, killing off entire villages, tribes, and cultures who left no written records.

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