Final Review - SS#1 Test

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What is a hypothesis?

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Something not proven, Something assumed to be true, A guess based on what we do know

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How many hypotheses do historians have about how the first humans arrived in the Americas?

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3

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This theory proposed that people entering the Americas followed the Pacific coastline, hunter-gatherer-fishers traveling in boats or along the shoreline and subsisting primarily on marine resources.

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Pacific Coastal Migration Theory

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This theory proposed that the people of Western Europe may have crossed the North Atlantic Ocean along the edge of pack ice that extended from the Atlantic coast of France to North America.

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Salutrean Theory

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This theory states that early animals and people traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that was exposed during the Ice Age. Today, these two lands are separated by a stretch of water called the Bering Strait.

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Land Bridge Theory

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The Maya developed a writing system based on hieroglyphs. They wrote on long sheets of paper made from bark to produce a kind of book. This book is called a:

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codex

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The Maya developed a mathematical system based on the number twenty. It was flexible enough for multiplication and division because it included

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the concept of zero

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The Maya developed a system in which they cleared and fertilized their rainforest for farming. This system is known as

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slash and burn

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The Inca carved flat strips of level land into the hillsides. These strips of level land were called

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terraces

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What is a census?

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a population count