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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

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