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A Short Summary Of Three Worlds Meet: The Peopling Of The Americas
In the following text we will find a brief summary about nomadic tribes who were the first inhabitants of the Americans which is based in the article Three Worlds Meet: The Peopling of the Americas (found it in the Course Syllabus).

Christopher Columbus landed in where he believed was the “New World” on October 12, 1492 however it was not something new. This was the home of diverse societies that would become known as North and South America for at least 12,000 years.

Columbus named the inhabitants "Indians" but nowadays they are called “Native Americans." According to several archaeological studies these native americans crossed from Siberia to Alaska during the ice ages. These first inhabitants lived in small hunter-gatherer groups, they ate roots, nuts, plants, deer and bears, and their weapons were sticks, stones and intelligence. Eventually the climate changed, the Ice Age creatures disappeared and the people noticed that they could make grow up some food everywhere by collecting and planting their seeds.

Once the Spanish arrived, they found several kind of foods like beans, tomatoes, peppers, corn, potatoes, pumpkins and cacao inasmuch as the Native Americans had discovered how adapting themselves to
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The olmecs were known to be very good farmers. They cleaned an area of jungle by cutting and burning the native vegetation, this process was called “slash and burn”. The impact in the environment was not bad due to the Olmec civilization was small and it allowed the reforestation. Other amazing abilities of the Olmecs was their ability to transport wonderful pieces of carved stones which were really huge and they were moved without having wheels. Further, the sculpted structures and had gorgeous designs, called hieroglyphs which nowadays some of them continue not being understood. Finally in AD 400, the Olmec civilization ended leaving a great

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