Applied English for American History I
Reading for Professor Jopp: "Peoples of the New World"

Last name ___________________ First name _______________

True (T) or False (F)? If the answer is false, correct the the answer!

_F_ The first "Americans" spoke French. many indigenous languages.

___ The first human beings in North American arrived more than 10,000 years ago.

___ The first "Americans" clearly came from Europe.

___Two of the most highly developed societies in the Americas were the Incas and the New Yorkers.

___ In about 1500, more people lived on the continent of South America than on the continent of North America.

___ About 50 different languages were spoken in the Americas before 1900.

___ Groups in the Americas that cultivated crops were, in general, more complex and advanced than groups of people without knowledge of farming.

___ There was little diversity between indigenous cultures in North America; most were similar.

___ Two factors that influenced the history of North American societies when Europeans arrived were: (1) there were no "states" or larger organizations of people, and (2) the indigenous people had little immunity to European diseases.

___ In general, less than 25% of the native populations died of disease.

Write two questions you have about the period of history you read about in this assignment.

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