US History Notes: Chapter 1 Section 1
US History Notes: Chapter 1 Section 1
The First Americans.
Main Idea: Native American civilizations developed in the Americas. Different ways of life developed according to the climate and geography of an area.
Crossing a Land Bridge:
- The first people in the Americas were nomads coming from Asia.
- A nomad is a person who travels all the time in search of food.
- The nomads came during the Ice Age, traveling on glaciers.
- A glacier is a huge sheet of moving ice.
- About 10,000 years ago the glaciers began to melt.
Native American Groups:
- Began to change from hunting and gathering to farming the same land each year.
- Villages were constructed.
Groups Live in Different Ways:
- Pacific Coast Native Americans – fished, gathered berries and nuts, constructed shelters from forests.
- Northeast NA – hunted elk, and deer, grew corn, squash, beans, cold weather homes built from bark and wood.
- Southwest NA – hunted rabbits, deer. Grew corn beans. Built homes from sundried clay brick. Very little water.
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Early Native American Civilization:
- Central and South America developed important civilizations.
- A civilization is the way of life of a people in one place and time.
- The Olmecs – first large civilization in Mexico 1200 B.C.
- The Maya – lived in rain forests of Central America in 250 A.D.
- Two important empires developed from civilizations in the Americas.
- An empire is the territories and people under the control of one rule.
- The Incas – South America 1200 A.D.
- The Aztecs – Central America 1400 A.D.
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