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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 →Andean peoples domesticated camelids for meat and later wool. Those animals included alpacas, guanacos and:Read the answer and worked solution →Mesoamerica's first complex civilisation, with its own monumental architecture, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →A civilisation appearing in the valleys of Oaxaca from about 500 BCE built the capital at Monte Alban. That civilisation is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Chavin-influenced Andean region later fragmented into full civilisations including Tiwanaku, Nazca and the:Read the answer and worked solution →An Andean coastal people removed the organs of their dead and replaced them with reeds and clay. That practice produced:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest known mound site in North America, dating from around 3900 BCE, sits in northern Louisiana. It is:Read the answer and worked solution →A new mound-building culture emerged on the old Adena and Hopewell lands around the year 700. It is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Monks Mound at that site, finished around 1100, is described as the largest human-made earthen mound in:Read the answer and worked solution →Historians place the origins of the Aztecs against the backdrop of the collapse of an earlier civilisation. That civilisation is the:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1428 a three-city partnership attacked and overthrew the powerful city-state of Atzcapotzalco. That partnership is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Around their island capital the Aztecs built artificial farming islands crossed by canals. Those plots are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Conquered peoples were made to hand over animal products, salt, textiles, artwork, cacao and maize. Those payments are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Inca Empire grew from a city more than eleven thousand feet up in the central Andes. That city is:Read the answer and worked solution →Lacking writing, the Inca recorded information on a portable device made of many knotted strings. That device is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Inca armies could crush rebellions quickly because of one great engineering asset. That asset was the empire's:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mesoamerican namesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the early cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Americas gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Americas wordsRead the answer and worked solution →North or southRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the Americas wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Early Americas bingoRead 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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