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| Bering Land Bridge | It’s a bridge that connected Sibera and Alaska. |
| Maize | In 4,000 B.C.E the peoples of Mesoamerica started to cultivate beans, chili peppers, avocados, squashes and gourds. It became the staple food of the area. Early Mesoamerica’s had a strict diet where they only ate the food they cultivated and not so much animals. |
| Ceremonial Centers | the end of the millennium B.C.E. The Mesoamerican people started the ceremonial centers with pyramids, temples and palaces. They were built alongside the agricultural villages. The permanent residents were members of the ruling elite, priests and some artisans and craftmen. Many people go to the centers on special occasions and exchange goods. |
| Obsidian | when they weren’t making metal technology they were making an extensive use of obsidian. They fashioned knives and axes with wickedly sharp edges. Obsidian came to the Gulf coast from the interior of Mesoamerica |
| Takal | from 300-900 C.E the Maya built many large centers. The most important one was Tikal. It was a large wealthy and busy city with a population of 40,000. It had large temples and pyramids located in it. The Temple of the Giant Jaguar represented the power Takal had over the surrounding region. |
| Chichen Itza | During the ninth century C.E the state of Chichen Itza damped hostile instincts and created large political framework for Maya society. The leaders preferred to absorb captives Many of them participated in the construction of a large society. |
| Bloodletting Rituals | The most important sacrifices was the shedding of human blood. Maya believed it would prompt the gods they would in return send rain for the crops. They would cut off the peoples finger tips and lacerated their bodies so as to cause a copious blood flow, this was in honor of the gods. |
| Olmec / Maya ball games | Maya also inherited a distinctive ball game from the Olmecs. The game sometimes involved two meant against each other but sometimes involved teams of two , three or four men. Theres no evidence women played with them. The game consisted of throwing a rubber ball through a ring without using their hands. |
| Popol Vuh | a Maya creation myth. It says that the gods created humans out of crops and water, they were the ingredients that became the flesh and blood. The Mayas religious beliefs |
| Chavin Cult | 800-300 BCE and went though the territory of modern Peru. There unknown of its proper name, scholars have named it after the modern town of of Chavin de Huntar, one of the cult’s most significant sites. The information on why the it was there has been vanished |
| Austronesia People | In 3000 BCE they started to trade on the coast of New Guniea They sailed the ocean in large canoes with outriggers which allowed their craft and reduced the risks of long voyages. |
| Double-haulled canoes | They were created by the austronesian people large canoes with twin hulls joined by a deck That’s where they stored supplies |
| Lapita People | 1500-500 BCE the early Austronesia people to sail out into the Pacific Ocean. They established agricultural Villages, raised pigs and chickens They maintained communication throughout a large region extending about 4500 kilometers from New guninea |
| Voyage of Fu | good standing man who tried to persuade his friends to join him in a journey to search for an unknown island. Ru divided it among the twenty young women, |
