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Early people likely followed animals without realizing they reached a new continent. After entering Alaska, thousands of years passed before movement through southern glacier openings. Archaeological evidence suggests life in the Western Hemisphere was well established before 10,000 B.C., with shifts from mammoths to bison and growing use of plants, berries, and seeds, leading to early foraging, agriculture, irrigation, and village life, including Hohokam settlements near Phoenix.",{"@graph":69,"@context":126},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":20,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/exam/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-first-americans-read-and-answer-questions/612367/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-first-americans-read-and-answer-questions/612367.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"McQueen","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-07","2026-10-19",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":24},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118,122],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What is the name of the land bridge that emerged between Asia and North America during the last ice age?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It is called Beringia.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Why did the first people cross into North America from Asia?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"They likely followed game, tracking animals from the Siberian coast across the land bridge.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Which animals were hunted by the earliest Americans, and what became the main food later?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Early Americans hunted large animals, and over time mammoths began to die out while bison became the principal source of food and hides.",{"name":123,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":124},"How did life change in Arizona before and during the Hohokam settlements?",{"text":125,"@type":113},"Foraging and primitive agriculture developed, irrigation appeared, and by early centuries A.D. the Hohokam lived near present-day Phoenix with ball courts, pyramid-like mounds, canals, and irrigation systems.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":128,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":130,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":132,"site_id":62},612367,1792718681,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":135},{"doc_id":132,"user_id":136,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":137,"doc_module":4,"category_id":19,"category_name":20,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":138,"file_id":139,"file_url":140,"file_type":141,"file_size":142,"view_count":24,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":8,"language":143,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":144,"faqs":145,"seo_title":146,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":147,"read_time":81,"preview_page_count":4},5909890329169,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_9964176cb1d06d4a9deccf72a44ae3dc","Name:   Date:   Class:    \nTHE FIRST AMERICANS  \nAt the height of the Ice Age, between 34,000 and 30,000 B. C. , much of the world’s water was locked up in vast continental ice sheets. As a result, the Bering Sea was hundreds of meters below its current level, and a land bridge, known as Beringia, emerged between Asia and North America. At its peak, Beringia is thought to have been some 1,500 kilometers wide. A moist and treeless tundra, it was covered with grasses and plant life, attracting the large animals that early humans hunted for their survival.  \nThe first people to reach North America almost certainly did so without knowing they had crossed into a new continent. They would have been following game, as their ancestors had for thousands of years, along the Siberian coast and then across the land bridge.  \nOnce in Alaska, it would take these first North Americans thousands of years more to work their way through the openings in great glaciers south to what is now the United States. Evidence of early life in North America continues to be found. Little of it, however, can be reliably dated before 12,000 B. C. ; a recent discovery of a hunting lookout in northern Alaska, for example, may date from almost that time. So too may the finely crafted spear points and items found near Clovis, New Mexico.  \nSimilar artifacts have been found at sites throughout North and South America, indicating that life was probably already well established in much of the Western Hemisphere by some time prior to 10,000 B. C.  \nAround that time the mammoth began to die out and the bison took its place as a principal source of food and hides for these early North Americans. Over time, as more and more species of large game vanished — whether from overhunting or natural causes — plants, berries, and seeds became an increasingly important part of the early American diet. Gradually, foraging and the first attempts at primitive agriculture appeared. Native Americans in what is now central Mexico led the way, cultivating corn, squash, and beans, perhaps as early as 8,000 B. C. Slowly, this knowledge spread northward.  \nBy 3,000 B. C. , a primitive type of corn was being grown in the river valleys of New Mexico and Arizona. Then the first signs of irrigation began to appear, and, by 300 B. C. , signs of early village life.  \nBy the first centuries A. D. , the Hohokam were living in settlements near what is now Phoenix, Arizona, where they built ball courts and pyramid-like mounds reminiscent of those found in Mexico, as well as a canal and irrigation system.  \nDirections: Read the text above, then answer the questions below.  \n1.What is the name of the land bridge which emerged between Asia and North America during the last ice age?  \n2.Why did the first people cross into North America from Asia?  \n3.According to archaeological artifacts, how long have human beings lived in the Western Hemisphere?  \n4.What animals were hunted by the earliest Americans?  \n5.How early was corn planted in what is now Arizona?  \n6.Describe life for the Hohokam of present-day Arizona.  \nText courtesy of the U.S . State Department, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005  \n© Sttudenudent Handouts, Inc . www.studenthandouts.com","cbCaiaegYNXm4HHx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaegYNXm4HHx","pdf",209583,"English","# THE FIRST AMERICANS\n## Ice Age migration and Beringia\n## Evidence and major food sources\n## Foraging, agriculture, irrigation, and village life\n## Hohokam life near Phoenix\n## Questions","[{\"question\":\"What is the name of the land bridge that emerged between Asia and North America during the last ice age?\",\"answer\":\"It is called Beringia.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the first people cross into North America from Asia?\",\"answer\":\"They likely followed game, tracking animals from the Siberian coast across the land bridge.\"},{\"question\":\"Which animals were hunted by the earliest Americans, and what became the main food later?\",\"answer\":\"Early Americans hunted large animals, and over time mammoths began to die out while bison became the principal source of food and hides.\"},{\"question\":\"How did life change in Arizona before and during the Hohokam settlements?\",\"answer\":\"Foraging and primitive agriculture developed, irrigation appeared, and by early centuries A.D. the Hohokam lived near present-day Phoenix with ball courts, pyramid-like mounds, canals, and irrigation systems.\"}]","THE FIRST AMERICANS - read and answer questions | PDF",1792383325]