USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are some terms used to refer to the people who first lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
A
American Indians
B
Indigenous peoples
C
Native Americans
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.

Detailed explanation-2: -2The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas is not a single homogenous group. This term-as well as terms used in the United States such as “Native American” and “American Indian"-refers to hundreds of culturally diverse groups who inhabited the Americas before Europeans settled there.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13, 000 to 13, 500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Two names that America could have received before the arrival of the Europeans were Zuania (of Caribbean origin) and Abya-Yala (used by the Kuna people of Panama).

Detailed explanation-5: -Mesoamerican is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of pre-Columbian cultures. This refers to an environmental area occupied by an assortment of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology in the Americas for more than three thousand years.

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