Chapter 1: The World by 1500

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Chapter 1 The World by 1500
Section 1 Early People's of the Americas
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The First Americans

• 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

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Agricultural Revolution

• 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.
• Dont 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

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Native American Cultures
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Native American Cultures

• Mesoamerica
• The Olmec (1200-400 B.C.) First great
  Mesoamerican culture
• Developed the beginnings of a calendar and
  writing
• Constructed stone portraits of rulers

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Native American Cultures

• Mesoamerica
• The Maya (300-900 A.D.)
• Refined Olmec calendar
• Devised a number system that included zero long
  before Europeans adopted the concept from the
  Arabs
• Developed a writing system with glyphs, or
  pictures

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Native American Cultures

• Mesoamerican
• Toltec 900-1100 A.D.
• Built Tula, a great city-state, or independent
  city
• Tula was a center for a great trading network

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Native American Cultures

• 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

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Native American Cultures

• South American Group
• Inca (mid 1400s A.D.)
• Largest empire in the Americas at the time
  with some 12 million people and more than 20
  languages spoken

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Native American Cultures

• Early Cultures of North America
• Anasazi
• Created multistory rock and adobe dwellings.
• Some dwellings had 800 rooms

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Native American Cultures

• Early Cultures of North America
• Adena Hopewell Cultures
• They were Mound Builders.
• Both Cultures created distinctive earthworks that
  served as elaborate burial grounds

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Native American Cultures

• 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

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