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UNITED STATES

NATIVE AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN SETTLERS

The indigenous peoples of the U.S. mainland, including Alaska Natives, are believed to have migrated from Asia, beginning between 12,000 and 40,000 years ago. Some, such as the Mississippian culture, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. After Europeans began settling the Americas, many millions of them died from epidemics of imported diseases like smallpox.

FOOD:

American cuisine is similar to other Western countries. Wheat is the primary cereal. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients such as turkey, venison, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and maple syrup, indigenous foods employed by Native Americans and early European settlers. Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American styles.

Characteristic dishes like apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from the recipes of various immigrants. French fries, Mexican dishes such as burritos and tacos, and pasta dishes freely adapted from Italian sources are widely consumed. Americans generally prefer coffee to tea.

SPORTS:

Since the late 19th century, baseball has been regarded as the national sport; American football ,basketball, and ice hockey are the country's three other leading professional team sports. College football and basketball attract large crowds.

Basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding, and cheer leaders are American inventions. While most major U.S. sports have been taken from European activities.

HEALTH

The United States life expectancy of 77.8 years at birth.

LANGUAGE:

English is in fact the national language. Although there is no official language at the federal level. In 2007, about 226 million, or 80% of the population aged five years and older, spoke only English at home. Spanish, spoken by 12% of the population at home, is the second most common Language. Some Americans want to make English the country's official language,

While neither has a no official language, New Mexico has laws providing for the use of both English and Spanish, as Louisiana does for English and French.

GEOGRAPHY

 50 federal states

 America is the third most populous nation in the world after China and India

CLIMATE

The United States, with its large size and geographic variety, includes most climate types. To the east of the 100th meridian, the climate ranges from humid continental in the north to humid subtropical in the south. The southern tip of Florida is tropical, as is Hawaii. Much of the Western mountains are alpine. The climate is dry in the Great Basin, desert in the South west, Mediterranean in coastal California, and oceanic in coastal Oregon and Washington and southern Alaska. Most of Alaska is subarctic or polar. Extreme weather is not common—the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are prone to hurricanes, and most of the world's tornadoes occur within the country, mainly in the Midwest's Tornado Alley.

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood’s Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, United States, on whose soil is placed over 2,000 5-pointed stars with the names of celebrities to whom the House of Hollywood trade honor for his contribution to the entertainment industry.

CURIOUSITIES:

-The most expensive restaurant in the United States, is in New York.

Masa Restaurant, New York.
Price: $ 366.

This small restaurant, seating for 26 people, is the most expensive in the U.S. with a menu that ranges between 350 and $ 500 per person not including any glass of alcohol.

-The most populous city in the United States.

Is, of course, New York.

With 17,800,000 seventeen million eight hundred thousand persons, is the second most populous city in the world. 1rst: Tokio.

-The most poor State in the United States is Mississipi.

-WHAT IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN IS NOT COMMON CELEBRATETHANKSGIVING DAY IN NOVEMBER?

The virgin islands.