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Booklets are due TOMORROW! Quiz on the Empires of the Americas is TOMORROW! Study Guide due TOMORROW!. Homework 04-09-2014. Reminders 04-04-2014. Quiz Correction African Empires due by Wednesday, April 9 th Booklet Africa and the Americas due Thursday, April 10 th
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Booklets are due TOMORROW! • Quiz on the Empires of the Americas is TOMORROW! • Study Guide due TOMORROW! Homework 04-09-2014
Reminders 04-04-2014 • Quiz Correction African Empires due by Wednesday, April 9th • Booklet Africa and the Americas due Thursday, April 10th • Quiz on the Civilizations of the Americas will be Thursday, April 10th
6-4.4 Explain the contributions, features, rise and fall of the North American ancestors of the numerous Native American tribes, including the Adena, Hopewell, Pueblo, and Mississippian cultures.
ANASAZI Cultural Area(500 A.D.-1200 A.D.) • Civilization grew up in what is now the southwestern United States (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Nevada.) • The area lacked a lot of rainfall, so the Anasazi used ditches, dams, and canals to capture whatever rain they got and channel the water to their crops.
Anasazi Homes • The Anasazi built stone and mud homes that were called PUEBLO. Pueblos were kind of like huge apartment buildings. • The largest city in the area called Pueblo Bonito which had around 800 apartments with over 1,000 people living there
ADENA and HOPEWELL Tribes (on the Ohio River Valley) • Around 700 B.C. the ability to farm reached the ADENA tribe (1000 B.C.-200 B.C.) (on the Ohio River Valley) • The ADENA were known for making amazing pottery and copper jewelry.
ADENA and HOPEWELL • The ADENA and HOPEWELL (200 B.C. to 500 A.D.) are most remembered today for producing amazing burial mounds
MISSISSIPPIAN Cultural Area • Around 800 A.D. the MISSISSIPPIAN culture grew up around the Mississippi River. • The grew MAIZE (Corn) and beans. Their success as farmers caused their population to grow very quickly. • For an unknown reason this civilization died out around 1300 A.D.