Why Did the Diet of the First North Americans Change

question 4

Multiple Choice

Why did the diet of the first North Americans change about 10,000 years ago?

• A) The animals they hunted in Asia did not follow them to North America, so they needed to find new sources of food.
• B) North Americans adopted agricultural systems, allowing them to replace meat with vegetables as the main foods in their diet.
• C) North Americans were unable to migrate far enough inland to find hunting grounds, so they adapted to the resources available at the coast.
• D) Mammoths and other large game disappeared from their habitat, causing North Americans to rely on smaller game, fish, and plant foods to survive.

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