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Module 1 Lesson 1

Module 1 Lesson 1

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Geography

8th Grade

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Seth Kocer

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6 Slides • 6 Questions

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Module 1 Lesson 1
The Earliest Americans

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Bering Land Bridge

Paleo- Indians- Believed to cross the bridge between Alaska and Eastern Asia between 38,000 and 10,000 BC.

  • Scientists believe people arrived in North America during the last Ice Age.

  • Migration- a movement of people or animals from one region to another.

  • Hunter-gatherers- These are people who hunted animals for food and gathered wild plants for food.

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Environments are climates and landscapes that surround living things. Migration of animals convinced the hunters to follow these animals

Environments

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Multiple Choice

A movement of people or animals from one region to another is called what?

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Migration

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paleo

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Bering

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Land Bridge

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Multiple Choice

What convinced the Hunter-gatherers to migrate to America?

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parentsforced them to move

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Animals moving

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It was more pretty

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better roads

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Culture is a group's set of common values and traditions, including, government, language and family relationships.
Farming became a big tradition for these new people which led them to continue to settle the lands.

Culture

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  • Around 1200 BC the Olmec developed the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica.

  • The Olmecs eventually ended around 400 BC but their traditions lived on. Getting passed to the Mayans.

  • The Mayans built large cities with crops and areas for social gatherings. This civilization ended around the 900's.

Olmecs and Mayans

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Multiple Choice

A group's set of common values and traditions is called what?

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Civilizations

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Olmecs

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Environment

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Culture

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Multiple Choice

Earliest civilization in South America name?

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Mesopotamia

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Mexico City

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Mesoamerica

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Dallas

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  • Around mid 1100 AD the Aztec migrated to central Mexico.

  • They were fierce warriors and used their force to become successful.

  • In 1325 AD they founded their capital Tenochtitlan which is present day Mexico City.

  • The Aztec had calendars, math, and a language called Nahuatl. This language still exists and is used by around 1.5 million people in Central Mexico today.

​​Aztec

  • The Inca a small tribe in the Andes Mountains.

  • Named their capital Cuzco they had no written language but kept records in quipu.
    Quipu is a system of knotted strings, the knots indicated numbers while string color indicated information.

  • They are known for building and for art. A system of highways spanned their empire.

​​Inca

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Multiple Choice

Aztec capital was called?

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Aztecia

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Tenochtitlan

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Cuzco

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Mesoamerica

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Multiple Choice

Written form of language used by the Inca?

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Incanian

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Spanish

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Quipu

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English

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