Chapter 1 - A Continent of Villages to 1500

Indigenous communities

________ have achieved a safe and comfortable life, developing the sophisticated knowledge of the rich and diverse resources available, a principle of "forest efficiency "for anthropologists.

Indian economy

In the first millennium, agriculture became the principal support of the ________ where the growing season was long enough to make the maize crop mature.

North America

The Hohokam, who lived in farming villages, builds and maintains the first irrigation system in ________ of Mexico, which channels water to water fields of maize, beans, squash, tobacco, and cotton through 500 miles of channels.

Acosta

________ was the first person to propose a generally accepted Asian hypothesis of migration.

Hohokam culture

________ shared several characteristics, including platform mounds for religious celebrations and big courts for balls, with Mesoamerican civilization south.

people of Yuman

The ________ worked small, irrigated fields along the Colorado River and on the floor of the Grand Canyon.