DO NOW Take out a blank sheet of
DO NOW Take out a blank sheet of paper. Label it: Pre-Columbian America North America at Colonization: before 1492
Pre-Columbian America North America at Colonization: before 1492
I. What indigenous communitie s existed by the time Europeans arrived?
I. What indigenous communitie s existed by the time Europeans arrived?
I. What indigenous communities existed by the time Europeans arrived? A. Southwest 1. Pueblos (descendants of the Anasazi) a. farmed with complex irrigation systems b. concentrated near Rio Grande in modern-day New Mexico 2. Athapascan peoples (known as the Navajo and the Apache) a. Navajo hunted and foraged, slowly adopted some Pueblo farming techniques b. Apache remained nomadic hunters and gatherers
I. What indigenous communities existed by the time Europeans arrived? B. South 1. descendants of Mississippian culture (Cahokia and Hopewell) 2. Natchez farmed in modern-day Mississippi 3. Cherokee Confederacy in modern-day Georgia a. farmed and hunted
I. What indigenous communities existed by the time Europeans arrived? C. Northeast 1. Iroquois Confederacy (Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas) a. formed confederacy to control inter-tribal violence b. Farmers 2. Algonquian peoples (Ojibwas or Chippewas, Narragansetts, Pequots) a. north of the Great Lakes, they were hunters, foragers, and traders in the mid-Atlantic, they farmed
I. What indigenous communities existed by the time Europeans arrived? D. Mexico and the Caribbean � 1. Aztecs (in present-day valley of Mexico) �a. farmers! 2. Yaqui and Comanche in northern Mexico a. nomadic hunters and gatherers � 3. Tainos in Cuba and “Hispaniola”
the “New World” was not “new” AP US History Homework #1 - Due: Monday, 9/9/13 Guiding Question for Chap. 1 (Pages 17 -40) What geographical, economic and religious factors influenced Europeans to explore the Americas?
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