Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pre Columbian America and Early European Settlement
- Pre Columbian America
- Early Migrations
- Paleo-Indians from Eurasia
- Bering Strait Theory
- Beringia
- Regions and their
Cultures
- Meso America and South America
- Olmecs
- Oldest complex
societies in SA
- Had a writing system
- Mayans
- Math, astronomy,
concept of 0
- Made calendars
and predicted the
end of the world
- Aztecs
- Capital at Tenochtitlan
on Lake Texcoco
- Were in power when
the Spaniards arrived
- Sacrifices
- Incans
- Cusco (capital),
Peru, Machu
Picchu
- Largest empire in the Americas
- North West Coast
- Kwakiutls and Chincoks
- Fishing and hunting
- Long houses and
totem poles
- South West
- Hohokam, Anasazi, Pueblos
- Built settlements into the
sides of cliffs and canyons
- Choco Canyon
- Great Plains
- Sparsely populated
- Chased buffalos for
clothes and food
- Midwest
- Adena, Hopewell, Cahokia,
Mississippian people
- Caribbean Islanders
- Tainos, Guanahatabeys, Caribs, Arawaks
- Northeast
- Farming techniques
exhausted the soil
- But had abundant
food sources
- Matrilineal society
- Iroquois Confederation
- Mohawk Valley of NY
- Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk
- By 1492
- Population of ~70m
- Agricultural based society
- More food = less concentration on
agriculture required = more specialization
- Early European Settlement
- Factors that lead to
European Exploration
- Mercantilism
- Exposure to Asia
- Large Nation States
- Crusades
- End of Mongols
- They had a lot land
controlled by one empire
- Once they fell apart it was harder to travel from Europe to
Asia by crossing through different people's territories