U.S History Prologue By: Ka’iupono Joseph, Drew Duarte, Nalu Aitaro, Bryce

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Land Bridge

Early Americans crossed a land bridge

It was between Alaska and Russia

Crossed from the Rockies and went southward

Crossed because Mammals were migrating to America

Land Bridge

Climate Change

Mammoths weighed up to 16,000 pounds

could feed 2 dozen hunters for the whole winter

Hunters would sharpen spears out of bone/stone

As the climate changed the mammoths started to die off

Died because of the dramatic change in whether

First communities

Archaic people started to settle along river coasts and along fish plentiful coasts and could sustain themselves for the whole year

They found places so plentiful that they scooped fish into their buckets.

They learned to make fishing nets and fishing hooks

Some people started to build pottery

Early American Community

Mound Builders

Poverty point was a community of mound builders

Leaders drew up plans to built earthworks

Adena’s flourished along the Mississippi and Illinois river valleys

Hopewell’s flourished along the Ohio and Illinois river valleys

There built mounds the shape of squares, circles and cones

Mound Builders

Early Americans; Sedentary

Sedentary: to stay in an area or to colonize

Early Americans became sedentary around the Neolithic period.

This started as early as 2500 B.C. possibly early then that.

Sedentary occurred because early Americans discovered the ability to farm.

Americans & Their Environment

Did Early Americans have control over their environment: Yes, No, Maybe?

Answer: YES

Factor:

They Formed a hierarchy

Had major Trade and religion

Buried their chiefs

Built long wooden palisades

Examples of the factors

They Formed a hierarchy. Example: Temples and warehouses and homes of elite leaders were located on top of mounds formed in the ground.

Formed trade and religion. Example: In 1000 The city of Cahokia was a major center of trade and religious activities.

Buried their chiefs. Example: 200 C.E one mass grave had about 300 pounds of bones found in yellow stone national park.

Built long wooden palisades: 1150 C.E. built around center of city, these were up to 100 ft tall.

Population and growth after 800Corn Cultivators

• Corn cultivator’s wanted extra helping hands with plowing, hoeing, weeding, and harvesting.For example they need the man power to plant more of there vegetation to keep there community flourishid.

• Corn cultivator’s promoted population growth.  Hunter’s supported abortion for mobility and reduced numbers of people to feed. These two different

• Corn cultivator’s promoted population growth.  Hunter’s supported abortion for mobility and reduced numbers of people to feed.

corn cultivators and Hunters

• Corn cultivator’s increased population by clearing woodland and plating more corn. 

•  Over years the two groups got into conflicts and corn cultivator’s prevailed over the hunter’s because of the fact they out numbered them.  

• Corn cultivator’s and Hunter’s build a Mutual advantage trade system was made between Corn cultivator’s and Hunter’s.

Cahokia

• Cahokia was a major center of trade and religion.There believes were manly around god.

• It was the first urban center of the U.S.

• They started to become civilized and have a hierarchy. Chiefs were buried upon 20,000 beaded shells along with animal corpse sculptures.

• Was probably the largest earthen structure in America’s