Early Americas Migration

What is a nomad?

• A person with out a permanent home. They travel from place to place.

• A well-organized and developed society.

• A time period before people started writing down history.

• A group of people who live in one location

What is a hunter gatherer?

• A member of a group of men that pledged to take up arms at a minute's notice

• A person who raises a variety of foods, crops, and animal products.

• A person who gets food by using a combination of hunting and fishing.

• A group of people who believe that hunting animals for food is unethical

What does an archeologist do?

• Study the human body and try to cure diseases.

• Study the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere.

• Study artifacts that early people left behind.

What is the Bering Strait ?

• A strait connecting the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separating Asia and North America.

• A strait piece of land that is above water that connects two pieces of land.

• 1000 of years ago it use to be a land bridge that connected Russia to North America.

• 1000 of years ago it use to be a land bridge that connected Russia to North America.

What is a land bridge?

• Suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

• An isthmus that connects two land areas that are normally separated by water.

• A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.

How are the two migration theories similar? (Land bridge and Costal Migration)

• No matter the route people left behind no trace of existence

• No matter the route people traveled the same

• No matter the route bison was people's main food source

• No matter the route people were hunter gatherers

How are the two theories different? (Coastal Migration and Land Bridge)

• They would have taken place at the same time

• People who traveled by land bridge used boats

• The food people ate and how they traveled.

• People who traveled by land bridge at fish and people who traveled down the coast ate bison

Would a person who lives a nomadic life style stay in one place for a long time?

• Yes

• No