Give me liberty
The First Americans
The settling of the Americas
Descended from bands of hunters and fishers
Crossed the Bering Strait via land
Arrived by sea from Asia or pacific lands
15,000 to 60,000 years ago
Early inhabitants spread to the tip of south America
Food crisis
Wooly mammoth and giant bison extinct due to climate warm
Near East
9,000 years ago agriculture developed; corn, squash, and beans modern day Mexico and Andes
Western hemisphere; no agriculture possible because of absence of livestock
Indian Societies Of the Americas
Tenochtitlan
Population of 250,000
Capital of the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico
World’s largest cities
Inca kingdom
12 million population complex system of roads and bridges
North America Indians
Not developed to the scale, grandeur, or centralized organizations of South Indians
Lacked technologies in compared to Europeans
No literacy
No metal tools, machines, gunpowder, scientific knowledge
Indian societies
Over time perfected techniques of farming, hunting and fishing, political power, religious belief, trade and communication
Mound builders of the Mississippi River Valley
Poverty point
3,500 years ago
Native Americans constructed large semicircular mounds
Mississippi river what is now Louisiana
Commercial and governmental center
Indians of the Ohio river “mound builders”
>1000 years before Columbus sailed
After their declined another community flourished
City of Cahokia
10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants in year 1200 largest settled community until the 1800
Western Indians
Hopi and Zuni
Arizona 3,000 years of settlement
Between years 900 and 1200
Built great planned towns in local canyons
Dams and canals
Trade with groups as far as central Mexico, Mississippi river valley
Pueblo Bonita
Chaco canyon, New Mexico
5 stories high and over 600 rooms
Pueblo Indians
Survivors of drought moved to the south and east
Named after Spanish explorers since they lived in
The settling of the Americas
Descended from bands of hunters and fishers
Crossed the Bering Strait via land
Arrived by sea from Asia or pacific lands
15,000 to 60,000 years ago
Early inhabitants spread to the tip of south America
Food crisis
Wooly mammoth and giant bison extinct due to climate warm
Near East
9,000 years ago agriculture developed; corn, squash, and beans modern day Mexico and Andes
Western hemisphere; no agriculture possible because of absence of livestock
Indian Societies Of the Americas
Tenochtitlan
Population of 250,000
Capital of the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico
World’s largest cities
Inca kingdom
12 million population complex system of roads and bridges
North America Indians
Not developed to the scale, grandeur, or centralized organizations of South Indians
Lacked technologies in compared to Europeans
No literacy
No metal tools, machines, gunpowder, scientific knowledge
Indian societies
Over time perfected techniques of farming, hunting and fishing, political power, religious belief, trade and communication
Mound builders of the Mississippi River Valley
Poverty point
3,500 years ago
Native Americans constructed large semicircular mounds
Mississippi river what is now Louisiana
Commercial and governmental center
Indians of the Ohio river “mound builders”
>1000 years before Columbus sailed
After their declined another community flourished
City of Cahokia
10,000 to 30,000 inhabitants in year 1200 largest settled community until the 1800
Western Indians
Hopi and Zuni
Arizona 3,000 years of settlement
Between years 900 and 1200
Built great planned towns in local canyons
Dams and canals
Trade with groups as far as central Mexico, Mississippi river valley
Pueblo Bonita
Chaco canyon, New Mexico
5 stories high and over 600 rooms
Pueblo Indians
Survivors of drought moved to the south and east
Named after Spanish explorers since they lived in