Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0432 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Peopling and Planting the Americas
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The idea
Humans crossed Beringia in the last glaciation and spread through the Americas, hunting big game toward extinction. About nine thousand years ago Andean groups domesticated animals, then squash and the potato; Mesoamerica turned to maize between five thousand and three thousand BCE, common by twenty-five hundred.
In practice
The Eastern Woodlands domesticating plants independently.
Where people slip
The anchor keeps ranges; so does the course.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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