... for they were a new kind of immigrant. The large majorities of the first immigrants from India were Punjabis, from a region called the Punjab. Most of these immigrants were young men, between 16 and 35 years old (Daniels 33). Many of them were married; however, they did not bring their wives across the sea with them. Their family and community ties remained strong after they left home; ... prepared by other hands. The Hindus were vegetarians and usually had their own cooks in the camps. The Sikhs ate mostly vegetables, fruit, and milk. In one of the camps, an Asian Indian told a woman vi...

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... that time, men must have crossed to Alaska no later than about 15000 years ago-about the time that last ice age was ending and the land bridge was being submerged. New discoveries and reassessments of old ones kept pushing the date of man's arrival in America further back in time. And every change in date raised new questions about haw he came. Artifacts that my be crude ... to the sea. As the population increased and the food demands grew accordingly, the Peruvians gradually extended their irrigation to the higher ground, moving the intakes of the ditches farther upstream and leading t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the eastern half of the continent, the ice covered the area to about the middle of where New York is today. Diverse environmental conditions south of the ice sheets remained as they were, but in the northern half of the continent, regions that had once been surfaced with dense forests, fertile land, and abundant game, turned cold, and barren. The expanding glaciers in the Ice Age forced sea levels to drop between 330 and ... fauna had vanished. Thirty-five genera of mammals that once wandered this land, and nineteen genera of birds are now extinct. Of the thousands of archeological sites...

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