USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In summer, Native Americans ____
A
Hunted and lived on stored foods
B
Hunted, fished, and picked berries
C
Grew crops
D
Harvested crops, hunted, preserved food for the winter
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In summer, they grew crops (beans, corn, and squash).

Detailed explanation-2: -Squash. As one of the “Three Sisters, ” three main agricultural crops native to North America (along with beans and corn), squash varieties come in different shapes and sizes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest Native Americans to cultivate corn were the Pueblo people of the American southwest, whose culture was transformed by the arrival of corn in 1, 200 B.C. By A.D. 1, 000, corn was a staple crop that sustained tribes like the Creek, Cherokee and Iroquois.

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