The First Americans - Chapter #2
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- Judaism is a ________that teaches a belief in one God.
- religion
- One American _______ is to eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
- custom
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True or False
The first people who came to the Americas almost certainly traveled by boat. - False
- A ________wanders from place to place in search of food.
- nomad
- Name four aspects of a culture?
- customs, language, social groups, economy
- You read about the _________ of people who lived hundreds of years ago.
- history
- A ________ ia a group of people who are joined together by the same culture and purposes.
- society
- Scientists believe that the ______ of people from Asia brought the first people to the Americas.
- values
- What are two cultural regions of the Western Hemisphere?
- Latin America & Anglo-America
- Principles, standards or ideals of a person or group are called?
- Values
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True or False
We have learned about the first people who came to the Americas from their writings? - true
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True or False
A group's way of life is called its customs? - true
- _________are the principles and standards of a person or group.
- Culture
- What is the difference between history and prehistory?
- History has records that you can read and prehistory is before records were written down.
- Ancient objects that were made & left behind by the people who lived there are called?
- artifacts
- How did the first Americans arrive in the Western Hemisphere?
- the land bridge called Beringia
- What are wandering hunters and gatherers who had no permanent homes called?
- nomads
- The study of the way in which people lived in the past is known as?
- archaeology
- A long cold period that began more than 70,000 years ago is called?
- Ice Age
- A movement of a group of people or animals from one place to another is called?
- migration