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...began in the collision of European, West African and ___________ _________________ peoples in North America. Europeans "discovered" America by accident, then created _________________ out of the conquest of _________________ peoples and the enslavement of ¬_________________. Yet conquest and enslavement were accompanied by centuries of cultural interactioninteraction that spelled disaster for _________________ and Native Americans and triumph for _________________, to be sure, but interaction that transformed all three peoples in the process.
1. Peopling the Americas
The lands that _________________ explorers called a New World were in fact very old. During the Ice Ages much of the world's water was bound up in _________________. Sea level dropped by hundreds of feet, creating a land bridge between _________________ and _______________.
_____________ walked across to become the first human inhabitants of the Americas. Scientists disagree on when this happened, but most estimates say it was around _________________years ago. When the last glaciers receded about ¬_________________ years ago ancestors of the _____________ _______________filled nearly all of the habitable parts of North and _____________ America. They lived in isolation from the historyand particularly from the _____________ of what became known as the Old World.
2. Native American Societies Around 1492
The Native Americans who greeted the first Europeans had become diverse peoples. The _____________ of ______________ and the ¬______________ of Peru built great empires. In what is now the United States, the ______________ built cities surrounded by farmland between presentday ______________, Missouri, and Natchez, ______________. The Pueblo peoples of the ______________ lived in large towns, ______________ their dry land with river water, and ______________ with peoples as far away...
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