1. Exploration and the Colonial Era
Fall 2016

2. Warm Up August 30, 2016

3. Warm Up August 30, 2016
FREE WRITE: 7 Minutes
In at least one paragraph, five sentences, respond to the following prompt.
Do not worry about grammar or spelling, just WRITE!
PROMPT: How do you think this world would be if we never studied history?
Think About:
Any information we would be missing.
Any mistakes that we could make.

4. Announcements Remember! Vocab Quiz on Friday, September 2, 2016!!
No school on Monday, September 5, b/c of Labor Day!

5. Vocabulary Recap Word Definition Visual Nomadic
Having no fixed home, moving from place to place according to seasons and availability of food and water.
Aztec
A Native American people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s and later developed into a powerful empire.
Anasazi
A Native American group that lived on the mesa tops, cliff sides, and canyon bottoms of the Four Corners Region (present day Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah Meet) from about A.D. 100 to 1300.

6. Word
Definition
Visual
Pueblo
A group of Native American peoples- descendants of the Anasazi- inhabiting the desert of the Southwest
Iroquois
A group of Native American peoples inhabiting the woodlands of the Northeast
Benin
A West African kingdom that flourished in the Niger Delta region ( in what is now Nigeria) from the 14th to the 17th century
Kongo
A group of small kingdoms along the Zaire River in West-Central Africa, united under a single leader in the late 1400s

7. Word
Definition
Visual
Islam
A religion founded in Arabia in A.D. 622 by the prophet Muhammad; its believers are called Muslims
Christianity
A religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
Reformation
A religious movement in 16th century Europe, growing out of a desire for reform in the Roman Catholic Church and leading to the establishment of various Protestant Churches.
Renaissance
A period of European history, lasting from about 1400 to 1600, during which interest in classical culture led to far reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world.

8. Double Entry Journal Time!
Title
Guiding Questions
Notes
Comments/Questions 1. 2. 3.
Summary:

9. The Americas, West Africa, and Europe

10. The Americas Ancient Cultures in the Americas Beringia
Many people believe that this frozen land area allowed people to come into North America between Asia and Alaska.
When the temperatures grew warmer, the big game died off, the land was filled with water, and the people stopped hunting big game.

11. From Hunting to Hunting and Gathering

12. After this change in climate, some people moved further south.
II. Agricultural Revolution= began in central Mexico and spread to the Americas
B/c of this, people settled in one place and stored food
Some Native American cultures never adopted agriculture and stayed nomads
Others were semi-nomadic

13. Aztec- the 1st empire of the Americas
Settled in Southern Mexico as early as the 1200s
IV. Inca- South American empire that emerged around 1400 A.D
-stretched 2,500 miles
V. North American Societies- the Hohokam and the Anasazi introduced crops into the deserts of the Southwest and had their own cultures
-others: the Adena, the Hopewell, and the Missisippian
-they did well at trading and building mounds as tombs and temples

14. Native American Societies of the 1400s
Lots of land=lots of environments=lots of ways of life
California had over 500 tribes before the colonization
The Tongva People lived where we are now!
Pueblo- dry Southwest, along with the Pima Tribes, were descendants of the Anasazi and Hohokam
Lived in multistory houses made of stone or adobe
Grew maize, beans, melons, and squash
Iroquois- lived beneath forests of Northeast
Hunted big game and fish

15. “We cannot sell the lives of men and animals, therefore we cannot sell this land” -1800s Blackfoot chief

16. West Africa Why is West Africa important?
Future slave trade
Three powerful kingdoms: Songhai, Benin, Kongo
Songhai: Ghana then Mali then Songhai
-power and wealth from controlling the trans-Sahara trade
-they taxed goods that passed through their land

17. Benin- forest kingdom along the southern coast of west Africa
-dominated a large region around the Niger Delta
-ruler: Ewuare
Kongo- located in West Central Africa on the lower Congo (Zaire) River
-consisted of a series of small kingdoms ruled by leader called the manikongo
Subsistance: farming, herding, hunting, fishing, mining, and trading
Islam: was brought into West Africa by trade
The Portuguese: Made contact with West Africa in the 1400s
-they made a shortcut to trade
-they began the European trade in enslaved West Africans

19. Europe
I. Social Hierarchy

20. II. The Crusades
-1096, first attempt to get rid of Muslims from the Holy Land around Jerusalem
-this last two centuries
-they didn’t succeed
III. Reformation
-1500s, people wanted reform in the church
-people criticized practices and challenged the authority of the pope
-the church split
England, Spain, France, and Portugal were Developing