What new types of technology were developed by the peoples of North America from 1000 to 500 B.C.E., and what effects did these developments have on their lives?
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A. North American technology
1. the Dorset people of the American North
a. blubber-fueled soapstone lamp allowed them to go farther to hunt travelling prey and opened in new hunting regions
b. barbed harpoon allowed them to catch bigger prey
2. the lower Mississippi River and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico cultures
a. worked in copper and manufactured fine tools and jewelry of colorful stones
b. developed trade society
3. Ohio River valley
a. burial mounds in the Ohio River valley provide evidence of new social patterns and perhaps chiefdoms
4. North American Southwest
a. a new variety of maize that matured in 120 days allowed for new planting regions
b. farmers in the region were working their way toward the same complete system of nutrition with maize, squash, beans
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