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3 Worlds Meet
Chapter 1
Coming to America
Section 1
Ancient People
1st people 22,000 years ago
Bering Strait or Beringia – Russia/Alaska
Big game hunters – Mammoth
Nomadic – moving from place to place in
search of food
Agriculture develops about 5 to 10
thousand years ago
Society Develops
Civilizations begin developing in America
about 3,000 years ago.
Activity – What attributes/characteristics
do you look for in a civilization?
Middle and South America
Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
Desert Farmers – in and around AZ
Hohokam, Anasazi
Mound Builders
Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian
North American
Societies
Around 1492
Section 2
Tribal Life
Activity – What would be 3 main things
that Native American tribes would base
their lives on?
Read Pgs. 9-10 make 2 bullet points for
each of the following groups:
California
Northwest Coast
Southwest
Eastern Woodlands
Shared Cultural Patters
Trading Networks – sharing of goods and
skills
Land Use – “land is the source of life”
Not to be sold – conflicts with whites
Religion – “Great Spirits”
Elaborate trails
Living or Not
Social Organization –
1. Family (respect of elders)
2. Division of labor – do your part
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Encounters
Section 5
Columbus’ Journey - 1492
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
Find gold, spread Christianity
Landed in the Caribbean Islands
Thought he was in Asia or the “Indies”
Would return with many settlers beginning
cultural clash
Activity – describe what cultural problems
would occur if you would move to Japan or any
other foreign country?
Colonization
Colonization – the establishment of distant
settlements controlled by a parent country
Spaniards forcing their ways on the natives
Attempted forced labor, resistance
Conquistador – conqueror
Disease wipes out natives
African slave trade begins
Trade of goods to and from Europe, Africa and
Asia (map on pg 29)
Debate
Read debate on pg. 30
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