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Ancient Americans

People Arrive in the Americas

​The First Hunter-Gatherers

​Review: Early Humans

Multiple Choice

What was mankind's 1st achievement

• Fire

• Farming

• Weapons/tools

• Civilization

Multiple Choice

What was mankind's 2nd achievement?

• Weapons

• Fire

• Civilization

• Farming/Agriculture

Multiple Choice

What was mankind's 3rd major achievement

• Weapons

• Fire

• Agriculture- Farming

• Civilization

Multiple Choice

Mankind used weapons and fire to survive as nomads. Eventually they discovered/learned how to use farming which led to

• The invention of the wheel

• The ice age

• Farmer's tan

• Development of civilization

​The Ice-Age Migration

• The Early humans that migrated to North America are called "Hunter -Gatherers".

  • They hunted animals and gathered wild plants

• During the Ice Age, Scientists believe that Russia and Alaska were connected by a land bridge

  • Sea levels dropped since all the Earth's water was frozen in a glacier.

• This "Bridge" was open for thousands of years.

• During this time humans followed the Ice Age animals over the Beringia Land Bridge

• The humans hunted Wooly Mammoths and Mastadons

  • The Mastadon was a large as a modern day elephant.

  • The humans needed good weapons and teamwork.

• Archaeologists study tools, bones, and other artifacts to draw conclusions about how these people once lived.

• Some evidence has humans at the southern tip of South America about 12,500 years ago

• This means they arrived in North America centuries(hundreds of years) earlier.

• Some believe they came by boat

Multiple Choice

How did the early humans most likely come to North America?

• By walking across a frozen sea

• By flying on birds

• By sailing across the Pacific Ocean

• By crossing over a land bridge between Russia and modern day Alaska

Multiple Choice

These first settlers crossed over a_________________

• Mountain

• Tunnel

• Big old wooden bridge

• Land bridge

Multiple Choice

This land bridge has been named___________________ by researchers

• Beringia

• Mound Builders

• Landbrigia

• Paleocrossing

Multiple Choice

Beringia was formed because of a_____________

• Lack of migration option

• Glacier during the Ice Age

• Early architect project

• major earthquake

Multiple Choice

When they settled in one area they started religions and made laws which began the earliest______________

• Civilization

• County

• State

• City

Multiple Choice

The ancestors of the Native Americans crossed over Beringia, or what it's known as today, the______________

• Bering Straight

• Appalachian Trail

• Green Mile

• Finish Line

Multiple Choice

What do scientists call the land bridge that connected modern day Russia and Alaska?

• Alaska Bridge

• Beringia

• Mastodon

• Bering Strait

Multiple Select

What did the early humans need to effectively hunt these large animals?

• Teamwork

• Boats

• Handmade weapons

• Lower sea levels

Multiple Choice

What do archaeologists study to learn about the early humans in North America?

• Ancient tools and artifacts

• Modern technology

• Fossils of plants

• Written records

Multiple Choice

How did the early humans migrate to North America?

• By swimming across the Pacific Ocean

• By flying on birds

• By sailing across the Atlantic Ocean

• By walking across a land bridge

Multiple Choice

Where did the early humans migrate to after reaching North America?

• Asia

• Europe

• Africa

• South America

Multiple Choice

What animal, almost as large as an elephant, did the early humans hunt?

• Mastodon

• Giraffe

• Tiger

• Kangaroo

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the land bridge that connected Asia and North America?

• Beringia

• Mastodon

• Bering Strait

• Alaska Bridge

Multiple Choice

What did the early humans use to hunt and gather food?

• Vehicles

• Books

• Weapons

• Computers

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the large animal that the early humans hunted?

• Giraffe

• Kangaroo

• Tiger

• Mastodon

Multiple Choice

What do scientists believe the early humans used to cross over from Asia to North America?

• A land bridge

• A road

• A tunnel

• A spaceship

Multiple Choice

How long ago did the early humans migrate to North America?

• Years ago

• Millennia ago(Thousands of years)

• Decades ago

• Centuries ago