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How Native Americans got to the Americas - ✔✔*migrants from Asia crossed a land

bridge that once connect Siberia and Alaska in Bering Sea,


migrated south from Arctic Circle to South America


3 highly developed civilizations - ✔✔Mayans, Aztecs, Incas


Mayan Civilization (300-800 AD) - ✔✔*remarkable cities in rain forests of Yucatan

Peninsula (present-day Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico)


*cultivated corn/maize


Aztec Empire - ✔✔*powerful empire in central Mexico


*Capital in Tenochtitlan


*population ~200k


*planted corn/maize




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,(200 yrs after decline of Mayan Empire)


Inca Empire - ✔✔*Peru/Andes Mnt (South America)


*cultivated da potato


similarities between Mayas, Incas, Aztecs - ✔✔*highly organized (and large) societies


*extensive trade


*created accurate & scientific calendars


*planted crops


the significant difference between Central/South American and North American Native

America Tribes - ✔✔North American Native Americans were smaller/separate tribes

(as opposed to a big empire),


*less sophisticated


Similarities between Central/South American and North American Tribes -

✔✔established farming systems, language


similarities between North American native cultures - ✔✔*semi-permanent settlements

in small groups


*men: made tools, hunted game


*women: gathered plants/nuts or grew crops like corn/maize, beans, tobacco




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, *animism


language of Native Americans - ✔✔very diverse, more than 20 language families & 400

distinct languages


*larges are Algoquian of Northeast, Siouan in Great Plains, Athabaskan in Southwest


Relationship between resource availability and cultural lifestyle (in general) - ✔✔*great

concentration of resources also created rigidly stratified class structures throughout the

West


*In areas with sparse natural resources, groups were more nomadic and less connected

to others.


Southwest Settlements (present day New Mexico & Arizona) - ✔✔*groups like

Hokokam, Anasazi, Pueblos


*farming with irrigation systems (corn; irrigation allowed Pueblos to plant beans and

squash in addition to corn)


*lived in caves, under cliffs, multistoried buildings


*stone/masonary homes


*drought between 1200-1300 disastrous, caused ancestral Pueblos to flee area


Northwest Settlements (present day Alaska-northern California) - ✔✔*Pacific Coast


*permanent longhouses/plank houses



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