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AP U.S. History Exam 2.1. Which of the following had the greatest impact on the settlement patterns shown on the map?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by settlement patterns Bankruptcy lawyers bag of tricks Which of

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the following had the greatest impact on the settlement patterns

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shown on the map Right here and here your potential

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answers It's Pretty colored drastic changes your introductions Well a

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lot of times you hear about europeans discovering the americas

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But true discovery was that tens of millions of people

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were already living from sea to shining sea when they

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got here So let's see which answer most unsettled The

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settlement pattern shown on the map Were these patterns most

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impacted by in a drastic change in climate beginning in

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the late fourteen hundreds Well actually there was a little

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ice age from thirteen fifty two eighteen fifty But it

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chilled european countries more than the americans Could settlement patterns

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have been impacted by sea the spread of christianity to

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the native people of north america while the spread of

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christianity along with the destruction of natural resource is by

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the europeans severely impacted native american cultures But those two

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elements didn't give tribes increased flexibility on where they could

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live So that settles things for c and d which

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means settlement patterns were most impacted by be european introduction

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of new crops and livestock to the western hemisphere Those

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horses and cowboys seem about as american as apple pie

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Horses didn't actually arrive in north america until europeans started

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settling the land Once europeans came ashore native americans had

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more options for planting and hurting which allowed them more

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flexibility in choosing where to live So be is the

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right answer Unfortunately alongside the horses and crops came brand

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new diseases as well which ended up wiping out ninety

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percent of the native population Looks like the nays have 00:01:55.738 --> [endTime] it

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