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Lesson 1: Early Cultures

Chapter 1: Peopling the Western Hemisphere. Lesson 1: Early Cultures. Indian Groups in Chapter 1. Olmec. Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Aztec. Maya. Inca. Mound Builders. Anasazi. Click on an Indian tribe name to learn more about that tribe.

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Lesson 1: Early Cultures

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  1. Chapter 1: Peopling the Western Hemisphere Lesson 1: Early Cultures

  2. Indian Groups in Chapter 1 Olmec Lesson 1 Lesson 2 • Aztec • Maya • Inca • Mound Builders • Anasazi Click on an Indian tribe name to learn more about that tribe. Once on the page, click on the Indian tribe page again to return to this page, or click anywhere on the page to continue the slideshow.

  3. Vocabulary Click on the vocabulary term to reveal the definition. Term Definition • Ice Age • A period of extreme cold during which much of Earth’s water was frozen into glaciers. • glacier • A huge sheet of ice. • To spend most of one’s time doing one kind of job. • specialize • A culture that has complex systems of government, education, religion, and often many people living in cities. • civilization • irrigation • A method of supplying dry land with water through a series of ditches or pipes.

  4. THE FIRST AMERICANS Click on the picture to learn more about the Ice Age, glaciers, Beringia, and the first Americans.

  5. The first settlers came over on land bridges. Land bridges were formed when glaciers took so much water that ocean levels dropped and land appeared. Hunter-Gatherers & The Earliest Farmers • When the glaciers melted the land bridges were covered with water the people and animals could not return to Asia and Europe. Europeans traveled across a North Atlantic land bridge to America. Asians traveled across a land bridge called Beringia to America. • The people spread out around North and South America • Some were Hunter-Gathers • Others became Farmers

  6. Hunted animals Example: Mammoth Gathered Dug up roots Wild fruits Nuts Mushrooms Planted Corn Beans Squash Tomatoes Sunflowers Hunter-Gatherers The Earliest Farmers

  7. THE OLMEC AND THE MAYA • Farmers • Specialized: Focused on one kind of job • Made complex communities Olmec Maya One of the earliest places this development occurred was in what today is Mexico.

  8. The Olmec • One of the earliest civilizations in the Americas. • Farmers in southern Mexico • Built a trading city call La Venta • Created a calendar • Played ceremonial ball games The Olmec were among the first to use stone in sculpture and architecture.

  9. The Maya • Farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala • Corn (maize) was the main source of food • Large populations in big cities • Artists • Scientists • Historians • Traders • First to understand concept of zero • Mysteriously disappeared around 909 A.D.

  10. Anasazi lands Mound Builder lands THE MOUND BUILDERS AND THE ANASAZI

  11. The Mound Builders • Some Mound Builders: • Adena • Hopewell • Cahokia • Mounds used for: • Religious ceremonies • Bury dead • Sundials and tracking stars The Great Serpent Mound in Cincinnati, Ohio was made by the Hopewell.

  12. Anasazi • Lived in Four Corners • Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona all meet • Made villages • Beneath rock cliffs • On sides of canyons • Tops of mesas – tall, flat hills • Used irrigation to farm in desert

  13. Time Lines: The Maya and the Anasazi 250 – Maya culture flourishes 900 – Maya culture ends A.D. 1 A.D. 300 A.D. 600 A.D. 900 A.D. 1200 A.D. 1500 900 – Anasazi culture flourishes 200 – Anasazi culture begins 1300 – Anasazi culture ends 600 – Anasazi begin to build large village buildings

  14. Time Lines: The Maya and the Mound Builders 900 – Maya culture ends 800 – Maya settle in Mexico 250 – Maya culture flourishes 1000 B.C 500 B.C. A.D. 1 A.D. 500 A.D. 1000 A.D. 1500 A.D. 2000 1000 – Cahokia people build flat-topped temple mounds 700 – Adena people build burial mounds 1700 – Mound Builder culture ends 500 – Hopewell people build many mounds

  15. Lesson 2: Aztec and Inca Chapter 1: Peopling the Western Hemisphere

  16. Vocabulary and People Term Definition Click on the vocabulary term to reveal the definition. • slavery • The practice of people owning other people and focing them to work.. • Pachakuti Inca • 1400s Emperor who enlarged the Inca Empire. empire A large area where different people are controlled by one ruler or government.

  17. THE AZTEC • 1st Location: Valley of Mexico (A.D. 1100) • 2nd Location: Tenochtitlan (A.D. 1325) • “Land of prickly pear cactus” • Language: Nahuatl

  18. Tenochtitlan • Built “chinampas” (“floating gardens”) for food • Large Empire • War was important • Forced enemies into slavery

  19. THE INCA • Capital: Cuzco • Rich mountain valley in southern Peru • Built empire through war

  20. Strong Leaders • Pachakuti Inca • Emperor of Inca • Greatly expanded Incan Empire • Organized empire • Cleared land for settlement • Appointed governors • Made citizens help expand empire and spread religion Statue of Pachakuti Inca

  21. Skilled Builders • The Inca built: • more than 19,000 miles of roads within their empire. • straw bridges between high mountain peeks. • terraces up mountainsides for farming. • irrigation systems.

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