Amerind History and Culture A Brief Overview of Pre-Columbian America.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Les Amérindiens / Native American History. How Hollywood has portrayed Native Americans.

Advertisements

NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES

Chapter 1: A Continent of Villages Prehistory – 1500

CHAPTER ONE THE ATLANTIC WORLD TO SECTION 1 Early Native settlement:  Migrated from Asia over the land bridge through the Bering Strait  Population.

ORIGINS OF AMERICA Myth: North America was a vast, tentative unknown expanse. White Europeans tamed and civilized it FACT: not a new world but an old one.

New World Beginnings. Early Civilizations Agriculture, especially corn growing, accounted for the size and sophistication of the Native American civilizations.

Native American Cultures

Chapter 1: Colonizing America

Native Americans before “finding” the New World

North American Peoples— Ch. 1, Sect. 3 Main Idea Many different cultures lived in North America before the arrival of the Europeans. Key Terms PuebloDrought.

North American Societies. Complex Societies in the West The Pacific Northwest was rich in resources and supported a sizable population. To the Kwakiutl,

Unit #2: Pre-Columbian Civilizations & Native Americans.

Native Americans.

Chapter 1 Section 1 Societies of North America P. 1/P. 22 A. Finding Main Ideas Describe the two theories given about how ancient people reached the Americans.

NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIETIES Chapter 1, Section 2

Unit 1 Pre Columbian Societies. 1. Early Inhabitants of the Americas Traditional POV: Land Bridge brings NE Asians Evidence: Clovis 10,000 BCE.

Peopling of the Americas Development of Native American Culture.

Chapter 1: The First Americans Section 1-2: Early Americans Focus Question: How did geography influence the development of cultures in North America?

Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities.

$20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 Migration Theories Ancient Civilizations Culture Areas.

First Americans Prehistory to Journey from Asia People traveled from Asia to North American during the Ice Age through a land mass known as Beringia,

The Creation of American Society Worlds Collide European explorers claimed to have found a “new world” when they arrived in the Western hemisphere.

Life in a New Land –Paleo-Indians: were the first Americans Crossed land bridge called – Beringia – between Siberia and what is now Alaska –They were.

Warm Up Question How do you think the people of North America adapted to their environment?

Regional North American Cultures: Iroquois Iroquois Confederacy = Five Nations (Six Nations) –Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas, Senecas, (Tuscaroras1722)

NATIVES AND EUROPEANS Unit IA AP U.S. History. Bering Sea Land Bridge Migration.

Why do you think Native American tribes developed different cultures?

North American Peoples— Ch. 1, Sect. 3 Key Terms PuebloDrought AdobeFederation.

The Americas Early History.

Peoples of North America Section 3 Understand how groups of people adapted to the desert environment of the Southwest. Analyze the evidence from which.

Peopling of the Americas Development of Native American Culture.

Pre-Columbian Societies OBJECTIVE #2: LOCATE AND DESCRIBE THE NATIVE AMERICAN EMPIRES IN MESOAMERICA, THE SOUTHWEST, AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

North America Before Columbus.

NATIVES AND EUROPEANS Unit IA AP U.S. History.

Pre-Columbian North America. Ancient America Kennewick Man found in years old, 5’9” tall, dead for 9,400 years.

Three Worlds Meet, 1200 B.C.E C.E Native Americans and Africans develop complex societies and cultures. Europeans explore and conquer parts of the.

Pre-Columbian Native Americans.  Myths of Native Americans?  Problems with generalizing? Time and space  Characteristics of Native culture? How diverse.

The Native American Experience (Pre-Columbus) America’s History Chapter 1 p

First Americans (and other parts of the World, too) Unit 1.1.

EARLY NATIVE AMERICANS

Chapter 1 The First Communities.

Native Americans.

Three Worlds Meet, 1200 B.C.E C.E

History and Myth.

The First Americans.

Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America

Exploration and the Colonial Era

Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America

North American Societies

Native American Cultures

Populating the Americas

The Earliest Americans

North American Societies

North American Peoples

Bell Ringer What is slash-and-burn agriculture? Why was it only beneficial for a few years? THE EASTERN MOUND BUILDERS PEOPLES OF THE SOUTHWEST AND GREAT.

America Prior to the Arrival of Europeans

Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet

Regional North American Cultures: Mound Builders

Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America

Mitten – CSHS AMAZ History – Semester 1

Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America

Pre-Columbian Civilizations in America

Welcome to Social Studies 8

Section 1: Early People's of the Americas

Early America & Exploration

Native American Empires

Example vs. Non-example Game

Native American Cultures

Use this PowerPoint to write your notes.

Ancient Americans Section 1.1.

Presentation transcript:

Amerind History and Culture A Brief Overview of Pre-Columbian America

I. Native American Land Wisdom Myth or reality? Is this history?

A. Why consider them? 1. European survival 2. Confluence of environment and culture

B. Who were they? 1. Early guesses (Jose de Acosta) 2. Pleistocene Epoch migration (30,000-15,000 BC)

C. Clovis Technology 1. 12,000-8,000 BC 2. Global technology

II. Development of Regional Cultures Climate change over-hunting “Pleistocene Overkill”

A. Climatic diversification

1. Folsom technology cooperative hunting 2. Desert culture limited nomadism 3. Forest efficiency hunt, gather, burn

B. Agriculture 1. 7,000-5,000 BC (late but independent) disadvantages of nomadism 2. Agriculture breeds complexity pop. Growth tribal organization urbanization gender roles: production & reproduction

AD, Anasazi culture (sw)

4. Mississippian culture (mound builders) Cahokia (1200 AD, 30,000 people) ecological instability

III. The Americas on the eve of colonization

In 1492 … distinct cultures in the West. Hem. - 60m people? Aztecs dominate Mexico Incas dominate South America

North America Southwest - Pueblos, Pimas Southeast - Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee Northeast - Iroquois Confederacy (Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca) combined farming w/ hunting? Easy targets?