1. Starter Write your response only.
Pretend you live on a Caribbean island in the 15th Century. Your society hunts game freely, grows crops of great variety and trades actively with nearby cultures. Now you sense that the world is about to change, the ships you see approaching are like nothing you have encountered before. How will the arrival of these strange people change your way of life? You can think positive and negatively. How can we apply this same concept of (Contact) to the 21st century?
When immigrants come to America they bring with them their cultural traits. How many like Chinese, Mexican, or Italian food? How did it get here? Immigrants also bring customs (new religions, governmental beliefs). How has this changed America’s way of life?

2. Class Starter What information is found in this chart?
Would you consider this a primary or secondary source?
What claims can you make based on the information in this chart?

3. Pre-Columbian America
The Americas
Pre-Columbian America

4. True of False? True What do you know about these people?
Civilizations existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans such as Christopher Columbus
True
What do you know about these people?
How do we know they existed?

5. True of False? True Do you know the name of the land bridge?
Most historians theorize that Native Americans migrated here from Asia by way of a land bridge
True
Do you know the name of the land bridge?

6. Bering Strait Land Bridge

7. Bering Strait Land Bridge
Historians and Archaeologists theorize that Native Americans migrated to the Americas during the last ice age 22,000 years ago
Low sea levels allowed people to walk across what is now the Bering Strait
Agricultural Revolution takes place 10,000-5,000 years ago in Mexico
Some people began to plant crops changing nomadic way of life
Societies became more complex, people developed new skills

8. True or False True What happened to that number?
Historians believe that there was around 15 to 20 million people living in America prior to the arrival of Europeans
True
What happened to that number?

9. Diverse Societies Native groups became very diverse
10 Cultural Regions formed based on the environment shaping their way of life
11 Regions including Mesoamerican
Some were Nomadic and others were non- migratory

10. True or False
All Native American cultures are the same culturally
False
There were over 1,000 spoken languages prior to the arrival of Europeans. Each nations became distinct based on their environment.

11. Societies of the Americas
North and South American societies built roads, trade networks, irrigation systems
Mound builders of Mississippi River Valley had a population of about 10,000-30,000
Western Native Americans (Hopi and Zuni) built planned cities with multi-story dwellings
Eastern North American agriculturalists growing corn, squash, and beans. They created alliance systems.

12. Compare this to the “American Dream.”
Land and Property
Private property was a foreign concept to Native Americans.
Land was communal property
Wealth mattered little
Generosity more important
Compare this to the “American Dream.”

13. Gender Relations Indian societies were matrilineal (follows mother)
Women had agricultural and domestic duties

14. Mesoamerica, South America, Carribbean
Olmec - along Gulf of Mexico
Maya - Guatemala, Yucatan Peninsula
Aztec - Valley of Mexico
Inca - Peru (South America)
Taino - Caribbean (first people to encounter Columbus)

15. Multiple Choice
The earliest people in Mesoamerica included all of the following EXCEPT
Anasazi
Aztec
Olmec
Maya

16. Early North America People
Desert
Hohokam
Anasazi
Mound Builders
Adena
Hopewell
Mississippian

17. Video
Native Americans History and Culture

18. Directions:
Using the map, color code the blank map given to you.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE THE SAME COLORS
Red Book=11
Green Book=8
Blue Book=11

20. Exit Slip
Write a response to the following. Native Americans were well advanced prior to the arrival of Europeans. What evidence exists to support this statement?

21. Assignment
Create Teacher made foldable. On outer flaps write the names of the Indian Nations listed below.
Title your foldable Native American Groups (North America)
Research the following Indian Nations
Tuscarora
Powhatan
Cherokee
Pequot
Iroquois
Provide the following information about each?
Where were they located
What was their social and political structure like prior to the arrival of Europeans.

22. Starter Regular

23. What activities are shown in the drawing
What activities are shown in the drawing? What appear to be two concerns of the people in this image?