Early Peoples
How did the early peoples adapt to their environment?
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No one knows why, but the first horses disappeared, maybe by traveling across the Bering Strait, or perhaps because major changes in the climate caused them to die out. There were few horses in North and South America until the Spanish explorers brought them in the 1500s.
As is the case all over the world, the people who populated North and South America lived in many different ways, developing their particular cultures and lifestyles in relationship to their environment. In fourth grade, you probably studied the American Indians of the area where you live. Indian tribes all over the continent had different ways of adapting to what was around them.
There were four main geographical groups of Indians in North America when the Pilgrims arrived: the Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest Indians. The homes, food, and culture of these groups were influenced by the geography of each area.
