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04/28/2013

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What were the three miles between Russia and US that scientist believe could have formed an area of dry land called what?
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Beringa
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How many miles were between Russia and the US?
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3
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What animal became extinct?
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wooly mammoth
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What stretched from the valley of Mexico to Costa Rica?
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Mesoamerica
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What was the most important crop in the Americas?
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corn(maize)
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Aroud 1200 BC, who built what near what is today Vera Cruz, Mexico?
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Olmec
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By 900 AD, who had completely deserted their cities?
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Mayans
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When the Europeons arrived, the Aztecs rulled about how many people?
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5 million
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Who lived in the coastal desert?
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the Moche people
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How did the Moche people irrigate crops?
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they dug canals
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Who lived in the Andes Mountains?
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the Incans
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Where was the first farming in the US?
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southwest
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Who were the first Native Americans in the Southwest to try farming?
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Itohokam people
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Who moved into cared homes into cliffs and canyons?
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the Anasazi people
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Who were groups that lived east of the Mississippi?
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Adena and Hopewell
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What was located in the dense forest of Peten?
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Mayan city-states
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What is the name of a great Aztec city?
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Tenochttlan
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Who was the greates Incan leader that built the largest empire in the Americas?
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Pachacuti
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Who also formed the Iroquios League to end fighting among the groups?
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Iroquois
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When did Columbus land in the new world?
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October 12,1492
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Who was a Mayan woman who spoke the Aztec language and gave Cortez information that he needed to attack the Aztecs?
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Malintzin
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Who is responsible for defeating the Aztecs?
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Cortez
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Who is responsible for defeating the Incans?
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Pizarro
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Women in the Mayan culture were important and could do what?
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rule as queens
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Mayans developed a system of methematics and a method of counting based on what number?
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20
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Who was the Aztec sun god?
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Quetzalcoatl
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What did the Aztec sun god look like?
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feathered serpeant
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Which group of people rarely made human sacrifices, but when they did, who did they sacrifice?
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children
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Which people are believed to have settled in what two places?
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Inuit, Canada and Alaska
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Where was the most populated area in North America by American Indians?
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present-day California
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What is today Hispanola?
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Hati and the Dominican Republic
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Who claimed Hispanola for Spain?
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conquistadors
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The conquistadors claimed what people as slaves?
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Taino from Hispanola
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What illness killed thousands of Native Americans?
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smallpox
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What two Spanish weapons shocked the Native Americans?
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Spanish horses and guns
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Why did the Aztecs not attack Cortez at first? Who was killed in the process?
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The Aztec feared Cortez was Quetzalcoatl and didn't attack at first- Cortez took Montezuma hostage, the fighting began- Montezuma was killed
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Who set out to find the empire of gold?
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Balboa and Pazarro
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