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How did people inhabit North America?

How did people inhabit North America?. The varied cultures of Native Americans. Main Ideas Addressed . How and why did man begin to settle down and begin to develop communities? How environment impacts culture and lifestyle. How does surplus impact technology?. Vocabulary. Migration

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How did people inhabit North America?

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  1. How did people inhabit North America? The varied cultures of Native Americans

  2. Main Ideas Addressed • How and why did man begin to settle down and begin to develop communities? • How environment impacts culture and lifestyle. • How does surplus impact technology?

  3. Vocabulary • Migration • Surplus • Irrigation

  4. How did people get here?

  5. Land Bridge Theory • Ice Age caused Ocean levels to drop. • Herds of animals moved across land bridge. • Hunter Gathers followed herds as they traveled to hunt them. • People began to spread out across North America

  6. Archaic Indians: seasonal travel & discover the territory Woodland Indians: villages begin and people settle down in smaller areas Mississippi Indians: tribes begin and regional differences develop. Lots of evidence is left in order to study these people. Paleo Indians: use the land bridge to travel BC 10,000 5,000 1,000 500 1,000 1,300 1,500 2,000 AD

  7. ARCHAIC INDIANS 1. Semi-nomadic hunters; moved with the seasons. 2. May have believed in an afterlife once they passed away. 3. Used polished or shaped stone tools. Started to develop ways to improve hunting and their way of life.

  8. How did Man stop moving? • Man stop moving and began to plant their food to supplement hunting. • Irrigation: watering crops by channeling water from rivers and streams. • Began to grow a surplus: more food than they needed to survive.

  9. Started Farming Then What? • Different cultures developed based on peoples environment. • Culture: means way of life • Culture area, regions in which groups of people have a similar way of life. • Having shared beliefs

  10. Native American Cultures in North American • Far North: Arctic Area, hunters, snow homes • Northwest: Groups from Southern Alaska to Northern California, roamed forests, gathered, fished, permanent homes. • Far West: Variety of climates Variety of homes, from pit homes, cone shaped houses, wooden houses • Southwest: Desert like, farming, Built large Adobe, (sun dried brick) homes and apartments

  11. WOODLAND INDIANS 1. They lived in permanent villages. 2. Used bow and arrow 3. Hunters & Gatherers used what was in the area for food and housing. A strong belief in the afterlife. http://www.eliwhitney.org/woodland/images/village.gif

  12. Different Native American Cultures in North American • Great Plains: Farming, and hunting buffalo, lived in earth lodges, and tepees made of animal skins. • Eastern Woodlands: Eastern U.S. Hunting, farming, wooden homes, gathered berries • Algonquian • Iroquois • Southeast: Hot humid, farming and hunting

  13. MISSISSIPPIANINDIANS Lived around ceremonial centers. These are often on mounds and important to their spiritual life. Farms and agriculture were the main sources of food. They enjoyed athletics and “free” time. They left evidence of life and artifacts in North Carolina How do these pictures illustrate these 4 topics? http://bama.ua.edu/~alaarch/clipart/indian05.jpg and http://www.missionsanluis.org/_images/apalacheeProvinceImage.jpg

  14. Power Point Quiz • What is the name of the theory that explains how human arrived in North America? • What weather event made the movement of man possible? • What determines culture? • What is a Hunter Gatherer? • What did man begin to do that stopped him from moving? • What is surplus? • How did surplus impact culture? • How does surplus impact technology?

  15. Timeline: How does movement effect the technology of the people?

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