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Land bridges formed when water levels dropped during the Ice Age. Hunters followed animals from Asia and crossed over to the Americas.
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The land bridge was covered with water once again
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People started farming in what is now central Mexico.
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The first Americans to use stone in sculpture and architecture.
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One of the first Mound Builders. They lived along the Ohio River.
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Existed in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala.
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The Hopewell Mound Builders lodged along the Ohio River.
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The Anasazi lived in the Southwest in the Four Corners area (where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona meet). They used irrigation to water their farms in the desert.
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The Mississippians settled in the river valleys of present-day Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
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The Cahokia lived along the Mississippi River. They built small, rounded piles of earth to bury their dead.
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Around AD 1100, the Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico.
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The Aztecs moved to an area around Lake Texcoco, called Tenochtitlan (which means "land of prickly pear cactus").
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Incas conquered neighboring people and eventually stretched from present-day Ecuador to central Chile.
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Columbus landed in the Americas.
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The arrival of Europeans
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The Navajo were introduced to sheep, goats, cattle, and horses when the Spanish came to America.
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The Inca Empire was weakened by civil war.
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The Spanish invaded the Inca.
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The Inca Empire ended.
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The Nez Perce acquired horses and became skilled horse breeders and traders.