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Chapter 16 Lesson 1: The FirstAmericans
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Main Ideas
It is believed that the first people in the Americascame from Asia during the Ice Age
The invention of farming led to the rise of civilizationsin the Americas
Early people in the northern part of the Americas built
complex cultures based on farming and trade
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Vocabulary
Glacier: huge sheets of ice
Monopoly: control all (or
almost all) trade or production
of a certain good
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Main Idea #1
How did people get to the Americas?
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Via landbridge
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Where did the people come from?
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Asia
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Do we only mean North America when we talk aboutthe Americas in this context?
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NO!
All of North and SouthAmerica
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How did people get food?
Hunting
woolly mammoth
antelope caribou
bison
fish
Gathering
nuts
fruits
roots
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Main Idea #2
Where did farming begin?
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Mesoamerica
Rich, volcanic soil and amild climate
Crops included pumpkins,peppers, squash, gourds, and beans. Eventually corn.
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Mesoamerican Civilizations
Olmec: Startedaround 1500 B.C.;lasted about 800
years
Teotihuacan: Placeof the Gods;reached its height
around A.D. 400
Maya:Disappearedaround A.D. 900
Moche: South ofMesoamerica; goodat farming and
raising animals
Aztec: CopiedToltec ways;control of theregion's ways
Toltec: Held amonopoly onobsidian, keeping
others from makingweapons
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Largest Mesoamerican Civilization
Inca
Build the biggest empire inthe ancient Americas
Capital Cuzco
Founded in A.D. 1100
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Main Idea #3
On what did early people in North America build their cultures?
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farming and trade
Hohokam
Around A.D. 300
Between the Salt and GilaRivers
Dug more than 500 miles ofcanals
Droughts drove them away?
Anasazi
Around A.D. 600
Present day New Mexico
Controlled the trade ofturquoise- used like money
50-year drought
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Mound Builders
East of the Mississippi River
Around 1000 B.C. Untilabout A.D. 400
Built mounds of earth-somein the shapes of animals
Mississippians
From present-day Ohio,Indiana, and Illinois to southof the Gulf of Mexico
City may have become toobig to feed itself
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Review Main Ideas
The first Americans weremost likely hunter-gathererswho came from Asia across
a land bridge.
A number of civilizationsdeveloped in the Americas.All were dependent onfarming.
In North America, farming civilizations arose in the Southwest andthen the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys.
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Early American Art