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Title: Chapter 9 The Americas Section 1: The Earliest Americans


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Chapter 9 - The Americas Section 1 The
Earliest Americans
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  • The Story Continues
  • According to one Native American myth, people
    once lived on a floating island. One day their
    ruler said to them, We will make a new place
    where another people may grow. The story goes on
    to describe events that led to the creation of
    Earth. The population of the Americas may have
    begun in a similar way. When people from another
    land decided to move eastward, they launched a
    migration that developed into Native American
    cultures.

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I. The Land and the People
  • The Americas stretch more than 9,000 miles
  • from Greenland to the tip of South America

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I. The Land and the People
  • Mountains run along the western coast the
  • Rocky Mountains in N. America and the Andes
  • in S. America

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I. The Land and the People
  • Two great river systems flow through these
  • continents the Mississippi and the Amazon

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I. The Land and the People
  • N. America is separated from Asia by a
  • narrow strip of water called the Bering Strait

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I. The Land and the People
  • During the Ice Age, the bottom of the Bering
  • Strait became a land bridge (Beringia)

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I. The Land and the People
  • 35,000 and 8,000 years ago Historians
  • theorize early peoples migrated from Asia
  • across the land bridge

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I. The Land and the People
  • They moved into N. America, migrated into
  • Mesoamerica, and reached S. America as
  • early as 10,500 B.C.

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I. The Land and the People
  • Many Native Americans explain their origins
  • with creation myths that include a creator or
  • supreme being

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I. The Land and the People
  • Native American creation myths often tell a
  • story of people emerging from an underground
  • world

According to "American Indian Creation Myths,"
the creation myths themselves fall into five
general categories 1) from chaos or nothingness,
2) from a cosmic egg or primal material mound, 3)
from world parents who are separated, 4) from a
process of earth-diving, 5) from several stages
of emergence from other worlds"
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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • The earliest people in the Americas were
  • nomadic hunter-gathers

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • Animals hunted included mammoths,
  • mastodons, horses, and camels all became
  • extinct about 10,000 years ago

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • Extinction may have been caused by a
  • massive climate change that began 11,000
  • years ago

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • The hunter-gatherers had to rely more on
  • plants and farming lifestyle emerged

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • The earliest known farming in the Americas
  • began in Mexico and spread north and south

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • Farming developed more slowly in the
  • Americas than in other parts of the world

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • Early Native Americans did not invent plows
  • they used sticks to dig holes and plant seeds

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II. The Development of American Agriculture
  • As the food supply became reliable, food
  • surpluses became available - villages and
  • towns began to appear
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