life in a new land –paleo-indians: were the first americans crossed land bridge called –...
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• Life in a New Land– Paleo-Indians: were the first
Americans• Crossed land bridge called
– Beringia – between Siberia and what is now Alaska
–They were following animal herds that they depended on for food, furs and skins for clothing
• Agricultural Revolution: Native Americans went from hunting and gathering to domestication, or the adapting and controlling of plants – THIS LED TO DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CLASSES.
– Don’t have to keep traveling – stay in cities which led to development of more elaborate division of labor
– Led to development of classes within a society
• Mesoamerica:– The Olmec (1200-400
B.C.): First great Mesoamerican culture • Developed the
beginnings of a calendar and writing
• Constructed stone portraits of rulers
• Mesoamerica:– The Maya (300-900 A.D.):
• Refined Olmec calendar• Devised a number system
that included zero long before European’s adopted the concept from the Arabs
• Developed a writing system with glyphs, or pictures
• Mesoamerican:
– Toltec: 900-1100 A.D.
• Built Tula, a great city-state, or independent city
• Tula was a center for a great trading network
• Mesoamerican:– Aztec (1200-1400 A.D):
• Fierce, warrior society• Built city of Tenochtitlan, the
site of present-day Mexico City• Over time, Tenochtitlan grew
into an impressive city with hundreds of buildings, an elaborate system of canals, and as many as 3,000 residents
• Developed a class system
• South American Group– Inca: (mid 1400s A.D.)
• Largest empire in the America’s at the time – with some 12 million people and more than 20 languages spoken
• Early Cultures of North America:– Anasazi:
• Created multistory rock and adobe dwellings.
• Some dwellings had 800 rooms
• Early Cultures of North America:– Adena & Hopewell
Cultures:• They were Mound
Builders.• Both Cultures created
distinctive earthworks that served as elaborate burial grounds
• Early Cultures of North America:– The Mississippian Culture
(East and Southeast)• Located in Cahokia, near
present-day St. Louis.• Built temple mounds
that extended 6 miles and contained 85 burial and temple mounds
