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Complex Societies in the West. Standard 2.6 E.Q. What societies emerged in the West? . Complex Societies . Most parts of early North American cultures were less developed than those of South America and Mesoamerica. North America did not create any great empires.
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Complex Societies in the West Standard 2.6 E.Q. What societies emerged in the West?
Complex Societies • Most parts of early North American cultures were less developed than those of South America and Mesoamerica. • North America did not create any great empires. • Did create great complex societies, able to conduct long – distance trade and build.
Culture of Abundance • Pacific Northwest was rich in resources and supported a sizeable population. • Most important resource was the sea. • Hunted whales in canoes. • Families displayed their rank and prosperity in an elaborate ceremony called the potlatch • Gave food, drink, and gifts to the community.
Accomplished Builders • The Hohokam used irrigation to produce harvests of corn, beans, and squash. • Use of pottery rather than baskets, and religious rituals, showed contact with Mesoamerican people. • Anansazi, who lived north of the Hohokam, influenced them. • Lived in present – day states of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Accomplished Builders • Built impressive cliff dwellings. • Built on mesas, flat topped hills or shallow caves in the sheer walls of deep canyons. • By 900 A.D. the Anasazi were living in pueblos, villages of large, apartment style compounds made of stone and adobe, or sun baked clay.
Accomplished Builders • Construction required a high degree of social organization and inventiveness. • In addition, a number of underground or partly underground ceremonial chambers called kivas were used for a variety of religious practices. • The Pueblo, descendants of the Anasazi, created beautiful pottery and woven blankets. • Traded these as well as corn and other farm products with the Plain Indians to the East.
