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Bering Land Bridge

  • connection between Asia and North America in the last ice age

    • migration of people and animals

  • hunter-gatherers from Siberia to present-day Alaska

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Chrissy C

  • columbus = Italian

  • crediting with opening up the Americas to European colonization after 1492

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Jamestown, Virginia

  • 1st permanent English settlement in North America

  • milestone in colonization of the New World → cultural interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, & Africans

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Mississippi people

  • Native civilization

  • southeastern US, around the Mississippi River Valley

  • complex social structure, agriculture, mound-building practices

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San Salvador

  • island where Chrissy C first landed in the New World (the Bahamas)

  • October 12, 1492

  • change in global trade, culture, and geopolitics

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Sarah Bradstreet

  • puritan poet in 17th century colonial times, significant figure in early American literature

  • challenged traditional gender roles in her poetry but she also wrote about religion