THE AMERICAS: 600 – 1450 CE Chapter 6

The Pre-Columbian Americas  What is meant by pre-Columbian?  Period before 1492  Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus & the “Columbian Exchange”

Two North American Native Groups  400 – 1300 CE  SW United States  Lived in pueblos  700 – 1500 CE  Ohio & Mississippi River Valleys  Cahokia: largest city of Mississippian Anasazi Mississippian Civilization

Mexico and Mesoamerica… Compare these answers with your notes in the guided reading packet. Put any extra details in the lecture notes packet!  Mayans: faded away in the 800s CE “mystery of history” *gone long before Europeans

Toltecs 800 – 1100 CE  An aggressive warrior society that ruled much of Central America …  After the Mayans

Aztecs: 1200 – 500s  Warlike people  Built pyramids  Practiced human sacrifice  Used a tributary system: conquered peoples taxed – had to provide Aztecs with good stuffs & gold!  Fell to the Spanish conquistadors~

South America: The Andes Mts. 600 – 1450 CE  Moche: 200 – 700  Used terrace farming  Waru Waru agriculture – technique consists in combining raised beds with irrigation channels so as to prevent damage due to soil erosion during floods.raised beds irrigationsoil erosion  Llamas  Quipu: knot tying method to keep records

Incans 1300s – 1500s  The Great Inca: ruler, considered to be a descendent of the Sun God  Achievements: sophisticated road system, elaborate bureaucracy, heyday in the 1400s.  Demise: fell to Spanish conquistadors (early 1500s)

People in the Americas were less susceptible to continent-wide circulation of germs but therefore had less opportunity to build up a natural immunity to diseases they later encountered upon the Europeans’ arrival in the New World. EX. Small Pox – Africans had an immunity. Native Americans did NOT! InTeResTiNg NoTe: