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Analyze the first Americans. It has recently been discovered that the first people to arrive in America had migrated in small groups over the Bering Strait via the land bridge that once connected Asia to North America. However, it has not been discovered exactly when this occurred. The most widely accepted theory is that these migrations took place approximately 15,000 years ago. By 11,000 B.C.E., these people had spread across the North and South American continents. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers that organized into small communities near food supplies. Agriculture may have begun about 10,000 years ago starting with the cultivation of squash and beans. Maize, possibly along with other crops, began to be cultivated in 5,000 B.C.E. by

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