1. The Americas CHAPTER 9 Section 1: The Earliest Americans
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CHAPTER 9
The Americas
Section 1: The Earliest Americans
Section 2: Cultures of North America
Section 3: Mesoamerica and Andean South America

2. The Earliest Americans
Section 1:
The Earliest Americans
Objectives:
Explain how people first arrived in the Americas.
Describe changes that the development of agriculture brought to the Americas.

3. The Earliest Americans
Section 1:
The Earliest Americans
The Land and the People
The physical setting – mountains, rivers, land bridge between the Americas and Asia
First arrivals – from Asia as early as 10,500 B.C.
Creation myths

4. The Development of American Agriculture
Section 1:
The Earliest Americans
The Development of American Agriculture
Hunters became farmers after large prehistoric animals became extinct

5. Cultures of North America
Section 2:
Cultures of North America
Objectives:
Explain how geography and climate affected life in different regions of North America.
Distinguish between the early American cultures in the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, the Great Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands.

6. Cultures of North America
Section 2:
Cultures of North America
Western North America
The Northwest – fishing, weaving, carving
The Southwest – irrigation, adobe
The Great Plains – used buffalo for food and clothing

7. Cultures of North America
Section 2:
Cultures of North America
The Eastern Woodlands
Hopewell were skilled artists, built burial mounds
Mississippians were successful farmers and traders

8. Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Section 3:
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Objectives:
Identify the characteristics of the Olmec, Toltec, and Maya cultures.
Explain how the Aztec and Inca built and strengthened their empires.

9. Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Section 3:
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Early Civilizations
The Olmec and Chavin – many farmers, few elite; skilled artists
The Maya – developed writing system, studied astronomy
The Toltec – pyramids, metalworking

10. The Aztec and Inca Empires
Section 3:
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
The Aztec and Inca Empires
The Aztec – warriors who borrowed from cultures they conquered
The Inca – brought conquered people into one imperial culture