1. Native Peoples of America
To 1500

2. How did they get here?
Boats, much like kayaks, traveled the coast line from Asia to North America.
Bering Land Bridge

3. Who did they hang out with?
Nomadic Tribes: Moved from place to place following an animal herd, or looking for food to hunt and gather.
Paleo Indians: lived in small bands of people.
Reciprocity: Mutual bestowing of gifts and favors rather than competition for resources.

4. What is Happening? Ice Age: Sea levels rose, New Waterways
Climate Change: Things are getting warmer
Animal Extinction: Mastodon, Mammoth
Creation of new Forest areas

5. Now what? The climate change created a lot of changes.
Archaic Peoples: Native American people from 8000bce-2500bce
Lived off fish, smaller animals, and wild plants
Villages vs Nomadic Tribes
Distinction between Male and Female roles.
Men: hunted, fished
Women: foraged for food
Both: served as religious healers

6. If we plant it, it will grow.
Agricultural Societies
Women started to realize they could manipulate the plants they were eating.
They started planting the seeds and producing food to eat
Created tools for digging and grinding
Drying and storing seeds
Soon these areas were domesticating animals
America lacked large animals so they domesticated:
Guinea Pigs, Llamas, Dogs, and Turkeys
These plants include squash, gourds, chili peppers, and fruits, corn.
It would still take centuries for the societies to be based solely on agriculture, but this allowed them to stay in one area longer and it allowed them to supplement their diet with something other than hunted meat.

7. Thank God for Farmers
Centuries later societies would be built around farming.
They would be able to grow a surplus of crops
This created trade.
Farming Surplus of crops Trade  Large City Centers  Civilizations
The farming allowed for trade to develop which allowed for large city centers to develop which led to full blown civilizations. This would create a huge revolution of settling into one place and staying there for the goods it could provide you.

8. The Maya, Aztec, Inca The Maya: Mexico-Honduras The Aztec: Mexico
Kingdom-States
Written Language & Numbers
Studied the Stars
The Aztec: Mexico
200,000 inhabitants
Relied heavily on agriculture, floating islands
Collected Taxes
The Inca: Peru
Terraced irrigation systems
Advanced Farming
Roads and Bridges

9. The Southwest Hokokam Anasazi
Southern Arizona, along the Gila and Salt River
Farming society
Established institutions: government, coordinated work forces,
Celebrated Recreation: Ball Courts, Artists, etc.
Anasazi
Located in the four corners: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado
Kivas: a large chamber often underground, used for religious and other purposes.
Wet season allowed them to spread across much of the Southwest, but drought drastically affected their size later.

10. Your Turn
A big part of this class will be how well you can read and take notes from the book.
I have done the first part of Chapter 1 for you.
Starting on page 8 Finish the rest of the chapter while taking notes for your quiz next week.