Ancient Native American Civilizations

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Native Americans originally

came from Asia. During the

Ice Age, Asia and Americawereconnectedby a landbridge.


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20,000 years ago, people must have walkedacross the land bridge while following herds of

animals.


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Their journey must have been difficult.


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They must have lived mostly by hunting large

mammals.


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Some Native Americans stayed in Alaska andCanada. They are still there today.


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These peopletraveled south andeventually filled up

North and South America.


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There was so much food in the Americas thatmost people never needed to farm.

They could hunt,fish, and gathermore than they

needed. For this reason,

civilization wasslow to come in

some places.


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Some Native Americans started farmingbetween 5,000 and 3,000 B.C.


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They had few domesticated animals such ascows, pigs, or chickens.

Some Native American farmers had turkeys or

llamas. Native Americans grew corn, potatoes, squash,pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate,tobacco, and beans. The rest of the world did

not have these crops until after 1492. Some Native Americans learned how to make

clothing from cotton.


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Comprehension Check Where did the first Americans come from? How did they come to America?

Why were some Native Americans slow tostart farming? What did Native American farmers have?

What did Native American farmers nothave?


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The first Native Americancivilization was the Olmec.

The Olmec started inMexico in 1300 B.C.The Olmec built giant

temples and statues.Their civilizationlasted over athousand years.


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Another ancient

Native Americancivilization inMexico was the

Maya. They Maya were

strongest between

250 B.C. and 800 A.D.


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The Mayalived inMexico.


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The Maya built huge cities and pyramids.They used boats to trade with people allover the Americas. They wrote books torecord their history. They studied the sun,moon, and stars very carefully.


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In the Andes Mountains of Peru,the Inca built a great civilization.


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Their roads, bridges and buildingsstill stand today.


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They were excellent at math and science.


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They had so much gold that in some places itwas used to make sidewalks.


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Just like theEgyptians, theywould mummify

their deadleaders.


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The Inca civilization was special.

They took care of all the people well.People were equal. There were no poorpeople.


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One Native American civilization called theMoundbuilders lived in the part of the

Americas that is the United States today.


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Not much is known about them, but theybuilt large mounds of earth to use as

tombs for their leaders. The mounds wereso large that they looked like large hills.Some are in the shapes of giant snakes or

birds.


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This Mound looks like a giant snake from above.
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Adams/Pictures/serpent.jpg


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Another civilization of North

America was the Pueblo. The Pueblo

built theircities in thesides ofcliffs in thedesert.


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