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The Earliest Americans Essay

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Michelle Fortner
Mr. Beggs
History of the Americas 9 (1)
12 August 2015
The Earliest Americans Questions
For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
Beringia: The land bridge that existed between Alaska and Siberia that enabled migration of humans and animals to North America. Ice Age: A cold period marked by extensive glaciation. Maize: Corn.
Which effect do you think had the most significant impact on the Americas? Explain.
The effect that I think had the most significant impact on the Americas is agriculture because lives for people became easier. Before they hunted or gathered what they ate, and afterwards they benefited from a more steady and dependable food source. Before they regularly moved to look for “big …show more content…

What sorts of changes did farming bring?
The sort of changes that farming brought were: people benefiting from a further steady and dependable food source, settling down and building vaster communities, concentrating on contemporary skills (architecture, arts and crafts, social organization), and elaborated societies eventually emerging.
Why do you think early Americans, isolated from the rest of the world, developed in ways similar to other early humans?
I think that early Americans, isolated from the rest of the world, developed in ways similar to other early humans because the basic needs of all humans are the same: food, water, and shelter, and those are what all humans looked for.
What sailing routes might early humans have traveled to the Americas?
The sailing routes early humans might have traveled to the Americas include the coastal route down the western coast of the Americas.
What sorts of problems might the earliest Americans have encountered in their travels?
The sorts of problems that the earliest Americans might have encountered in their travels include food shortages, water shortages, little-covering clothes, clothes shortages, heavy storms, and many

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