1. THE AMERICAS: 600 – 1450 CE Chapter 6

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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~

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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: