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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