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Give Me Liberty, Chapter 1, Brief Volume 1
5th Edition
Origins of settlement in the Americas - answer✔not a single group. many different people who
spoke different languages and lived in many different kinds of societies. most descended from
hunters and fishers
Emergence of Agriculture - answer✔Agriculture started developing in Mexico and the Andes and
made settled civilizations possible
What kinds of things were in place long before Europeans arrived in America - answer✔Roads,
Irrigation Systems, and Trade Networks
What was the capital of the Aztec empire - answer✔Tenochtitlan
What was one justification for European conquest - answer✔the "backwardness" of native
Americans. They didn't have the technologies Europeans did (guns, metal tools and machines,
scientific knowledge for long distance navigation)
Cahokia - answer✔Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as
25,000 Native Americans
Give Me Liberty, Chapter 1, Brief Volume 1
5th Edition
Origins of settlement in the Americas - answer✔not a single group. many different people who
spoke different languages and lived in many different kinds of societies. most descended from
hunters and fishers
Emergence of Agriculture - answer✔Agriculture started developing in Mexico and the Andes and
made settled civilizations possible
What kinds of things were in place long before Europeans arrived in America - answer✔Roads,
Irrigation Systems, and Trade Networks
What was the capital of the Aztec empire - answer✔Tenochtitlan
What was one justification for European conquest - answer✔the "backwardness" of native
Americans. They didn't have the technologies Europeans did (guns, metal tools and machines,
scientific knowledge for long distance navigation)
Cahokia - answer✔Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as
25,000 Native Americans
