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Pre-Columbian Era
Chapter One in American Nation
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History
10th Grade
09/14/2010

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Pueblos
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Created Irrigation
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Aztecs
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expanded due to military
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Incas
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highly intellegent, covered 2500 miles, ruler's name is Sappa Inca
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Stable Communities lead to:
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fishing and farming, changed e world, allows for specialization, society begins, increased food supply, surplus food, population grows, leasure leads to thought, thought leads to invention, STABILIZATION
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Baring Strait/ Baringia
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the natives crossed it from Russia to america and settled there
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Columbus
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wanted gold, god jutified his journey, the more advanced the civilization= the more gold, conquered the Incas and Aztecs through guns, steel, and disease
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Hunter- Gatherers
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the first hunters (Paleo-Indians)
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Paleo-Indians
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the first Americans
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Agicultural Revolution
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the shift from hunting to gathering
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Omlec
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first great meso-american culture
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Maya
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second meso-american culture- inherited the Omlec culture
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Toltec
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one of the invading groupps of central mexico (dominant)
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Aztec
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conquerors of the Toltec
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Inca
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the most powerful culture in meso-america
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Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui
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first major ruler
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Anasazi
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one of the groups who settled in the southwest
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Mound Builders
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the two cultures who dominated the easter region for about 1700 years
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