1. How did people inhabit North America?
The varied cultures of Native Americans

2. Main Ideas Addressed
How and why did man begin to settle down and begin to develop communities?
How environment impacts culture and lifestyle.
How does surplus impact technology?

3. Vocabulary
Migration
Surplus
Irrigation

4. How did people get here?

5. Land Bridge Theory Ice Age caused Ocean levels to drop.
Herds of animals moved across land bridge.
Hunter Gathers followed herds as they traveled to hunt them.
People began to spread out across North America

6. Paleo Indians: use the land bridge to travel
BC 10,000 5,000 1, , , , ,000 AD
Paleo Indians: use the land bridge to travel
Archaic Indians: seasonal travel & discover the territory
Woodland Indians: villages begin and people settle down in smaller areas
Mississippi Indians: tribes begin and regional differences develop. Lots of evidence is left in order to study these people.

7. ARCHAIC INDIANS 1. Semi-nomadic hunters; moved with the seasons.
2. May have believed in an afterlife once they passed away.
3. Used polished or shaped stone tools. Started to develop ways to improve hunting and their way of life.

8. How did Man stop moving?
Man stop moving and began to plant their food to supplement hunting.
Irrigation: watering crops by channeling water from rivers and streams.
Began to grow a surplus: more food than they needed to survive.

9. Started Farming Then What?
Different cultures developed based on peoples environment.
Culture: means way of life
Culture area, regions in which groups of people have a similar way of life.
Having shared beliefs

10. Native American Cultures in North American
Far North: Arctic Area, hunters, snow homes
Northwest: Groups from Southern Alaska to Northern California, roamed forests, gathered, fished, permanent homes.
Far West: Variety of climates Variety of homes, from pit homes, cone shaped houses, wooden houses
Southwest: Desert like, farming, Built large Adobe, (sun dried brick) homes and apartments

11. WOODLAND INDIANS 1. They lived in permanent villages.
2. Used bow and arrow
3. Hunters & Gatherers
used what was in the area
for food and housing.
A strong belief in the
afterlife.

12. Different Native American Cultures in North American
Great Plains: Farming, and hunting buffalo, lived in earth lodges, and tepees made of animal skins.
Eastern Woodlands: Eastern U.S. Hunting, farming, wooden homes, gathered berries
Algonquian
Iroquois
Southeast: Hot humid, farming and hunting

13. MISSISSIPPIAN INDIANS
Lived around ceremonial centers. These are often on mounds and important to their spiritual life.
Farms and agriculture were the main sources of food.
They enjoyed athletics and “free” time.
They left evidence of life and artifacts in North Carolina
How do these pictures illustrate these 4 topics?
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14. Power Point Quiz
What is the name of the theory that explains how human arrived in North America?
What weather event made the movement of man possible?
What determines culture?
What is a Hunter Gatherer?
What did man begin to do that stopped him from moving?
What is surplus?
How did surplus impact culture?
How does surplus impact technology?

15. Timeline: How does movement effect the technology of the people?