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Asian hunters crossed a land bridge while hunting.
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The land bridge used by hunters to cross to the Americas closed trapping them on the unknown continent.
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In about 7000 BC people started to plant seeds for food in South America and Central Mexico
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The olmec civilization existed between the years 1300 BC and 400BC. They lived in the Gulf Coast and what is now Southern Mexico
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Scientists have dated the first mounds to around 1000 BC
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The Aden people were hunters and gatherers in the Ohio Valley around 800 BC. They built the Great Snake mound in the shape of a giant snake winding across the ground.
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The Adena culture existed between 800 BC and 100 BC. They lived in the Ohio River Valley
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The Mayan civilization existed between 300BC and AD 909. They lived in what is now Southern Mexico and Guatemala.
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The Hopewell mound builders existed from 100BC and AD 500. They lived in large parts of North America
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The Anasazi culture existed from AD 1 to AD 1300. They were cliff dwellers who lived in Four Corners ( Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico)
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During their height the Mayans dwelled in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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The Mississippian culture existed from AD 700 to AD 1600. The lived in the river valley of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
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Around AD 900 the Mayans disappeared for unknown reasons.
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The Aztecs existed from AD 1200 to about AD 1520. They lived in what is today Mexico City
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The Incan Culture existed from 1400 to 1572. Their capitol city was called Cuzco and was located in a valley in Peru
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in AD 1420 the great city of Tenochtitlan emerged on an island in lake Texcoco (now part of Mexico City
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In 1438 the Incan emperor called Pachacuti came to power and started conquering neiboring communities
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In AD 1492 Christopher Columbus landed (by ship) in the Americas
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With Montezuma as their ruler the Aztecs were at their height around AD 1500. They ruled 200,000 miles of land, had 25 million subjects, and 400,000 soldiers
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Hernan Cortez found the Aztecs around 1519 and by 1520 the Aztecs were over taken by the Spanish thru war and small pox