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​Came from Asia

​Crossed the Beringia land bridge

​Currently covered with water and called the Bering Strait

​Followed the animals who they were hunting

​Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79soyD_S-IM

​Over the course of hundreds of years, the large animals that the people were hunting started to die off

​People had to find another way to get food

​They started learning to grow their own food (agriculture)

​Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6teBcfKpik

​Lived in southern Mexico

​Built temples and carved huge stone statues

​Created a calendar and a writing system

​Played ball games

​Lived in southern Mexico

​Built great palaces and huge pyramids covered with carvings called hieroglyphs

​Created a calendar

​Their civilization died off since there was not enough food for all of the people

​Lived in southwest region of present day United States

​Hohokam: used irrigation to farm, lived in underground homes

​Ancestral Pueblo: used dry farming, built homes on sides of cliffs

Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures

Built huge earthen mounds used for religious ceremonies or places to honor their gods​

​Were hunter-gatherers but later learned to grow their food

​Ability to grow own food led to increase in population

​Lived in present day midwest region of U.S.