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The first people to reach the Americas walked across a land bridge joining modern Alaska and Russia. That bridge is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Groups of hunter-gatherers had spread across North America south of the ice sheets as long ago as:Read the answer and worked solution →By around 5000 BCE, settlers in the Tehuacan Valley were eating beans, squash, bottle gourds and:Read the answer and worked solution →Genetic testing suggests one Andean tuber was domesticated between 8000 and 6000 BCE. That crop is the:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The first people to reach the Americas walked across a land bridge joining modern Alaska and Russia. That bridge is called:

  1. Beringia
  2. Bavaria
  3. Batavia
  4. Bohemia
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Correct answer: A. Beringia

1. Ice age sea levels exposed it. 2. It linked two continents. 3. It is Beringia. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Americas._

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Groups of hunter-gatherers had spread across North America south of the ice sheets as long ago as:

  1. Three thousand years
  2. Thirteen thousand years
  3. Thirty thousand years
  4. Three hundred years
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Correct answer: B. Thirteen thousand years

1. The spread came after the crossing. 2. It is measured in thousands of years. 3. It is thirteen thousand years ago. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Americas._

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By around 5000 BCE, settlers in the Tehuacan Valley were eating beans, squash, bottle gourds and:

  1. Maize
  2. Barley
  3. Rice
  4. Wheat
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Correct answer: A. Maize

1. It is also called corn. 2. It became the staple of Mesoamerica. 3. It is maize. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 1, Chapter 8, The Americas._

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