FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Transporting goods
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People who moved to a new region.
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The first people who lived in any region.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -/ɪnˈdɪdʒ·ə·nəs/ existing naturally or having always lived in a place; native: The Navajos are among the indigenous people of North America.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Indigenous” describes any group of people native to a specific region. In other words, it refers to people who lived there before colonists or settlers arrived, defined new borders, and began to occupy the land.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is the correct terminology: American Indian, Indian, Native American, Indigenous, or Native? All of these terms are acceptable. The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term ‘indigenous’derives from the late Latin ‘indigenus’ and ‘indigena’ (native) and from the Old Latin ‘indu’ that is derived from the archaic ‘endo’ (a cognate of the Greek ‘endo’), meaning ‘in, within’ and the Latin ‘gignere’ meaning ‘to beget’, from the root ‘gene’ meaning ‘to produce, give birth, beget.