mound-building Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern‚ Eastern‚ and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600‚ varying regionally. Composed of series of urban settlements and villages (the largest city being Cahokia) and linked together by a loose trading network. The Mississippians had no writing system or stone architecture. They worked naturally occurring metal deposits‚ such as hammering and annealing copper for ritual objects like Mississippian copper
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AP US HISTORY- MIDTERM REVIEW GUIDE Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Mr. Cruz Shaping North America > 10 million years ago: Mountains formed in North America (Rockies‚ Sierra Nevada‚ Cascades‚ and Appalachians). > 2 million years ago: Ice Age in North America‚ and glaciers shaped the continent. > 35‚000 years ago: Land bridge created between Eurasia and North America. > 10‚000 years ago: Sea level rose and America was separated from Eurasia again. The People of the Americas
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CHAPTER 1 The guest’s experience 8329 room division management h113 13 13-12-2007 16:03:30 1.1 Selection and reservation Hotel associates must look at a guest’s stay from the guest’s perspective. How does the guest experience his stay at the hotel? What does the guest need and what are his wishes? In order to fulfil these needs and wishes‚ hotels must gather as much information about the guest as possible. Therefore it is essential that hotel associates know about the different
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temporary land bridge from Siberia about 35‚000 years ago. Spreading across the two continents‚ they developed a great variety of societies based largely on corn agriculture and hunting. In North America‚ some ancient Indian peoples like the Pueblos‚ the Anasazi‚ and the Mississippian culture developed elaborate settlements. But on the whole‚ North American Indian societies were less numerous and urbanized than those in Central and South America‚ though equally diverse in culture and social organization.
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What were the political‚ religious‚ and cultural changes and continuities from the now extinct classical empires to the post-classical empires? Periodization: There were diplomatic dealings with Harun al-Rashid. There was political turmoil and other concerns so they laid the foundation of European Christendom- a region that never experienced political unity but adopted Christianity as the dominant source if cultural authority. The Byzantine Empire remained a political and economic powerhouse of
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By 1491‚ each diverse Native American tribe had already thriving and self-sufficient communities. This was achieved by three main reasons‚ starting with inhabitation of land with fertile vegetation. One South American empire utilized their unconventional mountainous geography to their advantage. While there are many factors in which each tribe and empire differed from one another‚ a common characteristic all Native American societies share is their belief in animism. On these grounds‚ Native American
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Two Gray Hills Area Square foot for square foot‚ the Two Gray Hills is the finest rug that has come-and continues to come-from the post-Classic Navajo loom. The Two Gray Hills post‚ along with the neighboring posts of Brinks (at Newcomb) and Toadlena (which means "water bubbling out of the ground")‚ are west of U.S. Highway 666 midway between Shiprock and Gallup. Toadlena is at the foot of the Chuska’ Mountains; Two Gray Hills is on the plain‚ and Brinks is on the highway. Two competing traders
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Incas- Peru b. Mayans- Central America c. Aztecs- Mexico III. The Earliest Americans A. Pueblo Indians 1. Constructed intricate irrigation systems to water their cornfields. 2. Lived in adobes and pueblos. B. Mound Builders 1. Lived at Cahokia‚ near present-day East St. Louis. 2. Built an elaborate pueblo of more than six hundred interconnected rooms at Chaco Canyon. C. Eastern Indians 1. Developed the three-sister farming where the beans grew on the trellis of the cornstalks and the
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The Hopi Tribe are a group of pueblo Indians‚ located in the northeastern Arizona. The Hopi are considered to be very wise by other Indian tribes because the Hopi have inhabited the same land for a millennium. Although the Hopi are a wise group of people with a beautiful way of life‚ the Hopi had to fight to remain near their original territory‚ and prospered on their current reservation. The Hopi are a very peaceful tribe who live in northeastern Arizona in the center of the NAVAJO lands. In the
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is the work for which Abbey is best known and by which he is most frequently defined. It contains his views on a variety of subjects‚ from the problems of the United States Park Service to an angry indictment of the evils of technology masquerading under the guise of progress. No voice is more eloquent in the praise of America’s remaining wilderness nor more vitriolic in attacking those who would exploit and destroy it for profit. In the introduction
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