pre columbian atlantic world

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  1. 6. Shift to farming and sedentary villages
  2. 8. Cultural characteristics of eastern Mississippian tribes that built complex permanent villages
  3. 10. Great Basin tribe that led in area that lack natural resources so depended on buffalo almost exclusively. Lived in tipi and were nomadic
  4. 12. City near today's st. Louis mo that was one of the largest complex cities in Northern America. Part of Mississippian culture of mound builders. Farmers grew maize and beans
  5. 13. Time frame after the ice age where humans shifted from hunter (large game) to hunter gatherer, they developed new tools for small game and engaged in some primitive farming
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  1. 1. Northwestern woodland tribe (ny and great lakes region) that lived in semi-nomadic lifestyle due to great amount of natural resources with winter camps (longhouses) and summer camps (wigwams) that alternated when soil become exhausted
  2. 2. Southwestern tribe utilizing 3 sister farming (maize, beans squash), irrigation and adobe style buildings for homes
  3. 3. In the peopling of the Americas, humans were entering north/south America on boats hugging the pacific coasts
  4. 4. Early native Americans group who were hunters (mammoths) during the late ice age crossing beringa to the standstill and then settling in New Mexico. They made distinctive arrowheads.
  5. 5. Southeastern tribe that lived in permanent settlements with large trading networks (like poverty paint in north LA)
  6. 7. Great plains tribe that were buffalo game hunters living in nomadic and semi nomadic lifestyles; greatly benefitted from the reintroduction of the horse by the Spanish
  7. 8. Simultaneous farming, hunt / gathering, and fishing
  8. 9. Pacific Northwest and California tribe; hunter/gatherer and fishing; substantial permanent settlements along pacific coast in long houses - territorial aggression led to violence
  9. 11. Landbridge between asia (siberia) and North America were hunter human populations crossed peopling north America; they experienced the standstill in this region for 10 -20 thousand years until the ice barriers melted at the end of the ice age making early americans genetically distinct from siberians