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

2. SECTION 1
The Earliest Americans
Question:
How did communities that were primarily hunters differ from those that were primarily farmers?

3. nomadic groups on the move
SECTION 1
The Earliest Americans
Communities
Food Sources
Hunting
Farming
nomadic groups on the move
constantly changing
settled towns
stable and reliable

4. Question: How did geography or climate influence peoples’ way of life?
SECTION 2
Cultures of North America
Question:
How did geography or climate influence peoples’ way of life?

5. hunting, fishing, farming
SECTION 2
Cultures of North America
Region
Way of Life
seacoast
fishing
desert
irrigated farming
high plains
hunting buffalo
forest region
hunting, fishing, farming

6. SECTION 3
Israel and the Occupied Territories
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Question:
What are some important characteristics or achievements of the Olmec, Maya, and Toltec peoples?

7. Mesoamerica and Andean South America
SECTION 3
Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Olmec
Maya
Toltec
writing system with “glyphs”
capital of Tula
carved giant stone heads
studied astronomy
introduced metalworking
worshiped part-jaguar god
developed calendar
worshiped Quetzalcoatl

8. Chapter Wrap-Up CHAPTER 9
1. How did climate changes allow for migration into the Western Hemisphere?
2. What ideas in astronomy, mathematics, and architectural engineering developed in Mesoamerica and Peru?
3. Why did the Aztec face revolts from the people they had conquered?