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Who are people who study the past?
historians
A person who studies artifacts and sites to learn about ancient people.
Archeologist
An object made by humans that tell a lot about the history of a place and its people.
artifact
Where were the first Americans from and how did they get here?
Thousands of years ago they came from Asia back when Asia was connected to the Americas. Because they were hunters, they followed their food.
People from long ago who hunted animals and gathered plants for food.
Hunter-gatherers
Descendants of the early people are called ______________.
Native Americans
Who is a descendant?
A descendant is a person’s child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and all the children that follow.
What is the planting and growing of crops for food?
agriculture
How did agriculture change the way many people lived?
Once people learned how to farm, they could stay in one place.
What is the way of life of a group of people?
culture
What are some examples of culture in Native Americans?
In some places, Native Americans farmed and lived in small villages or large communities. Other groups moved from place to place following their food.
Why did Native Americans develop into different cultures?
They had different ways of life depending on where they lived and what they ate.
What year did Columbus discover America?
1492
What were Columbus and other explorers looking for when they happened upon the Americas?
They were looking for a direct route to Asia so they could trade spices and other goods.
Why did Columbus call the people on the island “Indians”?
He thought they were in the Indies which were islands near Asia, so he called them “Indians”.
A settlement ruled by another country.
colony
