1. DO NOW
Who lived in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans? Include at least group/culture in your response. What were they like?

2. 101: Mesoamerica and Native Americans
Unit 1: Exploration and Settlement
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3. Agricultural Revolution
9,000-10,000 yrs. ago Mesoamericans learn to plant and raise crops (maize)
Led to villages and permanent civilizations

5. Mesoamerican Civilizations
Mayans
3,000 + yrs. ago
complex civilization
developed writing
built cities and temple pyramids
365-day calendar

7. Mesoamerican Civilizations
Aztecs
frequent war to conquer
floating gardens
human sacrifice
Incas
Andes Mountains
highway systems

8. Technology Spreads
Agricultural tech. spreads to the American SW and to the Mississippi

9. The Southwest
Farmed like Mesoamerican ancestors (corn)
Pueblo

10. The Pacific Coast Fished, hunted and gathered
Built homes w/ forest lumber
Many groups

11. The Great Plains Before 1500 farmers
Then nomads, following buffalo herds
Sioux

12. The Far North Inuit Arctic: Alaska to Greenland
Adapted to cold, harsh climate
Harpoon
dogsled

13. Land Bridge

14. The Eastern Woodlands Hunted, fished and farmed
Algonquian or Iroquoian
They practiced slash-and-burn agriculture
Cut down forests, burned cleared land
Ashes made fertile land

15. The Eastern Woodlands
Longhouses

16. The Eastern Woodlands
Wigwam

17. The Iroquois
Large kinship groups, or extended families, headed by elders
Fought one another
Five groups formed The Iroquois League to keep peace

18. Textbook pp. 5-11 Analyzing Geography, p. 5 Analyzing Geography, p. 9
Answer question 2 only
Analyzing Geography, p. 9
Document-Based Questions, p. 11
Answer questions 1-2

19. Explain how Mesoamerican and Native American civilizations were highly advanced. Provide two reasons to support your response.