Chapter 1 Test

migration

movement of people or things

glaciers

vast slow moving blocks od ice
2 mi. thick

Beringia

land bridge that linked Asia and N. America
1000 miles thick

nomads

people with no permenant home
hunted for food

George McJunkin

1926 in Folsom and Clovism New Mexico
found buffalo bones with stone pionts

berginia melted

10,000 years ago

wild maize

corn

agriculture

changes everything
began growing own food

changes by agriculture

settled into villages and then towns
population begins to grow

culture

peoples arts, beilfs, inventions, traditions, and languages

with extra food

store it
trade it

civilization

society with a high level of art, technology, and government

mesoamerica

mexico and central america