Away With Time

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Away With Time
From The First Americans page 14
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1. Where does our story of the First
Americans start?

• In Northern Asia a place called Mongolia

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2. What invention allows people to wear
clothes of animal hide that fit their bodies?

• A needle made of bone

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3. Describe the home that the family in this
chapter lives in.

• A fine hut built of big bones and branches and
  earth

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4. How does the family described in this chapter
get their food?

• They are big game hunters

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5. What makes these humans different from wild
animals?

• Your fine brain and your hands

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6. What are their tools made of?

• Most tools are made of stone

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7. List three things that these humans make out
of stone

• Spearheads, axes and hollowed out stones for
  cooking

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8. What has fire allowed these humans to do to
help them survive?

• Fire has allowed you to travel north, to follow
  the big animals

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9. What type of large animals did these humans
hunt?

• Wooly mammoths, mastodons or polar bears

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10. About how long ago are we sure that these
early humans had dogs as companions?

• 14,000 years ago

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11. What did our hunters follow that leads them
to a new continent?

• They will follow the tracks of a mammoth

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12. What is the name of the earth bridge that
allowed the ancestors to walk across two
continents?

• Beringia

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13. How wide was Beringia during the ice age?

• 1,000 miles wide

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14. Describe the glaciers that these humans
walked past

• They were a mile high - Beringia was full of
  lakes and wild plants that drew animals.

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15. Name three animals that the hunters followed
into what is now Alaska

• Whales, seals, bison and birds.

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16. What led the hunters to a grassy roadway
between parts of the great glacier?

• Animal herds

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17. Where did the hunters end up after they
followed the grassy roadway?

• The plains of North America

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18. List six animals that the hunters found in
North America

• Antelope, Musk Ox, Bighorn Sheep, Lions, Deer,
  Moose, Fox, Otter, Beaver, Saber- Toothed Tigers
  and Bison

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19. Why had these animals grown so big?

• They had the land to themselves and were never
  hunted by man

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20. Why did these hunters start having such big
families?

• The had plenty of food to eat