1. Bellringer
What are some things you think of when you think of an American?

2. Peopling the Americas

3. Ancient people came to the Americas about 40,000 years ago, across a land bridge that connected Asia to Alaska. (Bering Strait)
Cultures changed with the introduction of agriculture

4. Synthesize and Recognize
-What was the means of survival for the earliest people?
What were the effects of agriculture on the hunting and gathering peoples of the Americas?
What are some of the achievements of early civilizations of Americans?

5. Check your Answers
They first lived as big game hunters, then gradually shifted to hunting and gathering.
Agriculture made it possible for people to stay in one place, accumulate and store food, and build stable societies and complex cultures.
Mining, and working with metal, building great cities, palaces, pyramids, writing.

6. Complex Societies in Americas
The first empires developed in what is now southern Mexico
Olmec, Maya, Inca (middle and southern Mexico)
Hohokam, Anasazi (Four Corners)
Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian (Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico)

7. Classwork 1. Summarize your Cornell Notes
2. Complete questions 2- 4, Section 1 Assessment (include the page number where you found your answer!)

8. Homework Define the following terms: migrate and immigrate
Answer the following question: For what reasons do people migrate from one region to another?
Complete the following sentences:
Before reading this section, I thought the history of our nation began with __________. Now I think it should begin with __________ because