The Olmecs 1) Migration to Mesoamerica a. Large wave of humans traveled from Siberia to Alaska around 13‚000 B.C.E. b. By 9500 B.C.E.‚ humans reached the southernmost part of South America c. As hunting became difficult‚ agriculture began (7500 B.C.E.) 2) Early
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The Winnebago tribe has two bands. One band of the Winnebago people resides in many places of Wisconsin and the other band of the Winnebago people resides on the reservation in Winnebago Nebraska. The Winnebago people migrated from the Mayans in Mesoamerica to Nebraska. There were plenty of epidemic diseases and wars that caused migrations to the Native American people. Before the Europeans invaded the New World‚ the Native American people didn’t have a written language‚ therefore oral traditions
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Neha Rattu 09.06.2014 APUSH Chapter 1 1. Native Americans in the “New World” a. bad omens- lightning struck temple‚ blazing lights in the sky b. BAMM! White people are on the shores :O big shocker (let’s just welcome them‚ forgetting all the bad omens) c. HERNAN CORTES------ 1519 ----- shows his beautiful face to the Indians (key event in the discovery of the New World) d. WHYY DID HE COME? Well‚ in short‚ during the 1400-1500s in Europe‚ there was a lot of
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Chapter1- When Old Worlds Collide: Contact‚ Conquest‚ Catastrophe I. Peoples in Motion A. The United States is a nation of immigrants B. Even Natives of the country are immigrants from different countries who roamed the land as a strange new world. C. From Beringia to the Americas 1. Beringia is a piece of land that was created because of the glaciers that captured all of the water causing a piece of land to form which was then called Beringia. 2. Berinigia had very tough
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The First Civilizations of North America/Old Worlds‚ New Worlds 15‚000 years ago‚ during the Ice Age the first humans’ inhabitants walked across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia to Alaska of what will become America creating a new civilization. The Siberian descendants slowly spread out to the east and south of the continent‚ and build complex societies. Anthropologists have found a variety of language and culture; depending on the environmental conditions many of the tribes that lived in close
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BC -400 BC Olmec Indians were first to from Cocoa Beans as Domestic Crop. Civilization only lasted 300 B.C. b. 600 AD Mayans migrate Central & South America establish cocoa plantation c. 14th Century: Aztecs upper classes who usurped the Mayan drink taxed the beans & drank chocolate drink‚ because it supposedly healed the soul. d. Aztecs restricted the drink to priests‚ nobles‚ kings‚ queens‚ officials and worriers. (showed of sign of higher class) e. 1502 Columbus entered Mayan trading channel
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Chapter 3 Study Guide I.Key Terms Sudanic societies: agriculture took root in Sudan first. The region used to be grassy with lakes‚ rivers‚ and streams. They domesticated cattle and became nomadic herders. After 7500 B.C.E they established permanent settlements. Around 5000 B.C.E Sudanic people had formed small monarchies and developed religious beliefs. “Gifts of the Nile”: Herodotus said Egypt was “the gift of the Nile” because of Egypt’s advantages over the floods from the Nile. With the floods
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Vasconcelos was greatly inspired by early works in Mayans‚ and like the previous intellectuals‚ attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis‚ which he saw as a technologically sophisticated‚ more advanced culture. Vasconcelos would piggy back on this claim and further tie his concept of mestizaje (miscegenation) to the ancient civilizations of the Greeks‚ Romans‚ Mayans‚ Quechuan‚ and Toltecans. Arguing that Latin America had origins in
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is a big land with large mountains and deep canyons in the middle of the country‚ a lot of dessert by the north‚ and rain forests in the south. Mexico has a climate variations. mexicans are mix of their descedants people that are mayans‚ Aztecs ‚ toltecs‚ Spanish colonizers‚ and others.both of the countries belong to the same ethnic group latino . the group”latino” is a group of people with ties to latin American and people that have nationalities from other
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health and irresistible. ! The cacao bean was founded by an ancient tribe called the Olmecs between the time of 1200 to 300 B.C. They were a tribe that inhabited the tropical lowlands of South America and would be the first to domesticate the plant and use the beans. The Olmec tribe would be responsible also for naming these bitter seeds that held secrets to power and health (Ziegler 400). ! Along would come the Mayans and Aztecs who would also become fond of the cacao bean. It would be used for physical
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