○ How does geography affect the way that people live and the activities that make up their lives?
○ How did the American Indians in each region of North America use local resources appropriate to their climate and other physical characteristics of their environment?
○ How does the past influence the present? Future?
○ How do internal and external factors impact society?
○ Hunter/gatherers adapted to their physical environments using resources, the natural world, and technological advancements.
○ Archaeology provides historical and scientific explanations for how ancient people lived.
○ Regional geographic differences can result in social, economic and political differences.
○ Natural resources and the use of the environment will influence a group’s way of life in a region.
○ Indigenous societies in the Western Hemisphere migrated and changed in response to the physical environment and due to their interactions with Europeans.
○ Societies are impacted by internal and external factors.