1. Ancient America

2. North America Hopewell Culture – 200 BCE to 500 CE
Mississippi and Ohio River valleys
Built thousands of burial/ceremonial mounds
Mississippian Culture – 800 to 1500 CE
Traded throughout the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri River valleys
Leading City was Cahokia (40,000 people)
Anasazi Culture – 100 BCE to 1300 CE
Agricultural society between the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers
Ceremonial center at Pueblo Bonito
Used adobe bricks to build pueblos (villages)

3. Mesoamerica
Olmecs – first major civilization in region – 1200 BCE – 400 BCE
Began with the domestication of Corn
Maya – 1900 BCE – 900 CE
Mathematics – First to use ZERO
Astronomy – Created an Accurate Calendar
Engineering – Built massive pyramids & palaces
Writing – Created an elaborate system of writing
Teotihuacan – 200 BCE – 535 CE
City had 150,000 people at it’s peak
Controlled trade of green obsidian for tools & weapons
Religious center
Aztec – 1427 – 1521 CE
Ruled an empire of over 5 million people
Tenochtitlan – Capital 200,000 people
Capital was built on an island in a lake

4. The Maya

5. South America Caral, Peru – 2600 BCE – 2000 BCE
Norte Chico civilization.
Built large pyramids
Chinchorro BCE BCE
Culture in Northern Chile
Mummified their dead
Tiwanaku – 200 CE CE
Built a city high in the Andes
Nazca & Cahuachi Culture BCE to 800 CE
Created the Nazca Lines

7. South America Inca - 1476 CE – 1534 CE
Controlled a 2000 mile long empire
Modified their environment
Built a network of roads
Created terraces for farming