Transcript Bellwork: - Tucker: AP US History

 Answer
the following question on the first
page of the first section in your 3-subject
notebook.
 What
do you know about America before
Columbus got here?
 “The
colonizers brought along plants and
animals new to the Americas, some by
design and others by accident. Determined
to farm in a European manner, the colonists
introduced their domesticated livestockhoneybees, pigs, horses, mules, sheep, and
cattle- and their domesticated plants. In
sum, the remaking of the Americas was a
team effort by a set of interdependent
species led and partially managed (but
never fully controlled (by the European
people)”.
 Summarize this into 140 characters.
 The
export of New World crops to the Old
World transformed European society mostly
by:
• A. improving diets and thereby stimulating
population growth
• B. encouraging enclosure of open lands and pushing
workers off farms
• C. Promoting greater exploration of the interior of
the American continents
• D. fostering conflicts among major powers over
access to new food supplies
 “This
option is correct. The export of New
World crops to the Old World most
significantly improved diets in Europe
due to population growth.
 Bellwork
 Lecture
 Venn
 TOD
with guided notes
Diagram on Aztecs, Incas, Mayas
 Bellwork
 Textbooks/Interactive
 Lecture
 Start
Notebooks
with guided notes
dropping knowledge!
 Earth=
billions of years old
 Written
history= 6,000 years old
 European
colonization in “new world”=
500 years old
 Continental
 Shifting
drift moves continents apart
and folding of earth’s crust
creates landforms
 During
the Ice Age, sea levels dropped
 People
cross bridge
 Ice
Age ends, ice melts (about 10,000
years ago)
 Sea
levels rise
 People
cut off from each other
 Incas
(Peru)
 Aztecs
(Mexico)
 Mayans
(Central America)
 Agriculturally
 Complex
advanced (maize)
cultures/societies
 Mathematics, astrology, fierce
 No
draft animals
warriors
 Why
is corn revolutionary?
 Transforms
ancient societies from:
Small, nomadic, hunter-gatherer groups
to:
Large, settled, organized agricultural villages
 The
Aztecs practiced human sacrifice
 Some
estimates suggests about 5,000
people per year were ritually
slaughtered
 Between
1530 and 1630, England
executed 75,000 people
 Reached
different societies in North
America at different times
 Southwest: around
2000 BCE
 Pueblo
means village in Spanish and
actually refers to a variety of
Southwestern cultural groups
 Impermanent
settlements vs. large
nation-states
 This
difference will affect how easily
Europeans can take over
 Cahokia-
(near present-day St. Louis) was
once home to about 25,000 people
 Chaco
Canyon (modern day New
Mexico)
 Both
fell into decline by about 1300 CE
 Three-sisters
farming
 High
population density in the North:
• Creek
• Choctaw
• Cherokee
 Leader: Hiawatha
 Read: pages
36 and 37
 In
most settled agricultural groups:
• Women tended crops while men hunted and
fished and gathered fuel
• Women had substantial societal authority
• Matrilineal societies
 Europeans
 Neither
 Did
vs. Native American views
desire or means
have an effect
 Look
at the map on pg. 9 of Pageant book
 Questions:
• Are you surprised at the number of tribes on the
map?
• How do you think the variety of tribes/cultures
will impact European colonization of North
America?