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Chapter 1 The Americas
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Summary of Chapter 1
  • Culture and early life of Americans similar to
    Mesopotamia, Indus River, Egypt, Huang He
  • Reliance upon water
  • Geography climate enable Americans to build a
    civilization

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Summary of Chapter 1
  • The early inhabitants of the Americas probably
    traveled from Asia across a Bering Strait land
    bridge produced by the Ice Age.
  • The Inuit, Iroquois, Hopewell, Plains Indians,
    and Anasazi were major North American groups.
  • The Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations
    developed and administered complex societies.

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The Grand Council
  • The Iroquois League was as model for British
    colonies.
  • Ben Franklin used the Iroquois League as an
    example for American democracy.
  • The men were hunters and warriors.
  • The women owned the longhouses, and harvested the
    crops corn, beans, and squash, called the three
    sisters.

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The Great Peace Alliance of the 5 groups of
Iroquois
  • Principles of Great Peace
  • do not act on self-interest
  • act for the welfare of the whole
  • act with the good of future generations in mind
  • Iroquois lived in Longhouses

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North American Natives
  • In North America, these early inhabitants
    included the Inuit people near the Arctic Circle
  • The Hopewell peoples of the Ohio River valley,
    known as The Moundbuilders
  • The Great Plains Indians lived in teepees

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Video Mystery of the Anasazi The Ancient Ones
SW America Disappeared suddenly
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MesoAmericans
  • Name for areas of Mexico and Central America that
    were civilized before the Spaniards arrived.
  • Major civilizations were the Aztecs, Mayans, and
    Incas
  • Most advanced civilizations of ancient Americas

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The Aztecs
  • The Aztecs develop into an empire that could have
    rivaled Rome.
  • Floating city, pyramids, aqueducts
  • Teotihuacán TAY oh wuh KAHN
  • (Place of the Gods) was Mesoamericas first
    major city.
  • Located near where Mexico City is today
  • 200,000 inhabitants
  • 200 ft tall Pyramids

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Aztec Turquoise Mosaic Serpent
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Maximum extent of the Aztec Empire
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The Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan, an example
of a Mesoamerican settlement planned according to
concepts of directionality. Their concepts of
space and time are associated with the four
cardinal compass points and linked together by
the calendar
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A view of the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan
which flourished from 200 AD to 600 AD, and which
is the site of the second largest pyramid in the
Americas
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The Aztecs The Rome of the Americas
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The Mayans
  • They developed an agriculturally intensive,
    city-centered empire consisting of numerous
    independent city-states.
  • The Mayans collapsed suddenly
  • There is no universally accepted theory to
    explain this collapse.

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What Happened to the Mayans?
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Engineering an Empire - Maya
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Incas
  • Located on western coast of S. America
  • Became an empire under the leadership of
    Pachacuti created highly centralized govt.
  • A system of roads that extended 24,800 miles

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Incan Empire
  • No writing system, kept records on quipu a
    series of strings and knots
  • Like all the MesoAmerican civilizations, the
    Incas were no match for the Spanish Conquistadors
    and their steel weapons, gunpowder, and horses.
  • Disease also plays a large role in the downfall
    of Native American civilizations after contact
    with Europeans

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