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Natural land bridges formed when land bridges dropped during the Ice Age and Asian hunters arrives in the Americas.
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Land bridges were covered again.
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People started planting in central Mexico.
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The Olmec people was the first civilization. They came and lived along the gulf coast of southern Mexico.
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The Adena's were the first mound builders.
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The Mayan's settled in southern Mexico and Guatemala. They used maize (corn) to make corn dough totrillas.
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The Hopewell mound builders lived by the Ohio River
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The Anasazi people lived by cliff dwellings.
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The Anasazi used irrigation to water their farms
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The Mississippians people were architects. They are known for there
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The Mayan civilization disappeared.
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The Mayan traders moved goods up and down the coast.
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The Cahokia lived by the Mississippi River. They built rounded piles of earth to bury their dead.
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The Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico.
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The Aztecs moved to Lake Texcoco-Tenochtitlan.
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The Incas established their empire in southern Peru.
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Itzcoatl helped the Aztecs to form a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to conquer rivals.
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Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neighboring communities.
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Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
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Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador, led soldiers to the Aztec civilizations.
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The Incas empire was weakened by the Civil War.
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The Spanish invaded the Incas
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The incas empire ended.
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The Inuit people lived in the northern most part of North America. They were and still are called eskimos and they live in igloos.
