Transcript Chapter 21- The US and World War I

Three Worlds Meet
Chapter 1- The First Americans
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Why they came, where they came from
and where they settled
◦ 22,000 years ago the first people came to live
in North America
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Ice Age
◦ 10,000 years ago massive sheets of Ice
covered the North American Continent
◦ Land Bridge
 Connected Asia and North America
 This land bridge was called Beringia
People of Mesoamerica
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Olmecs
◦ 1200 BC and AD 600 was a strong settlement
in Mexico
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Mayans
◦ AD 250 Mayans built a huge civilization in today
Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico
◦ Still today the ruins of their temples and pyramids
remain
People of Mesoamerica
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Toltecs
◦ AD 900 the Toltecs ruled in the Mexican
Highlands
◦ The ruins of their main city Tula show several
temples
 Experts believe nomads took over the Toltecs and
formed the Aztec civilization
People of Mesoamerica
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Aztecs
◦ AD 1200 the Aztec civilization began to form
 Ruled a large part of central and southern Mexico
 Main city was Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city)
People of Mesoamerica
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Incas
◦ AD 1200 Incas started a kingdom in southern
Peru in South American
 Good builders, lawmakers, and warriors
Southwestern Peoples
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Hohokam (Arizona)
◦ 300 BC the Hohokam became farmers with miles of irrigation
canals for watering crops
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Mogollon (Southeastern Arizona and southern NM)
◦ 200 BC Mogollons were also farmers, first peoples to make
pottery
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Anasazi (Arizona, NM, Utah, Colorado)
◦ AD 100 the Anasazi were “Cliff Dwellers”
Mound Builders
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700 BC to AD 300 the Hopewell mound builders
thrived
◦ Built animals shape mounds to honor their dead
Mississippi, Plains, and NW Civilizations
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Burial grounds have been found in lower Mississippi
River Valley which are believed to have been built in
4500 BC
Mississippians
Plains Indians ( 250 BC)
◦ Nomadic people
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Pacific NW (AD 400)
◦ Lived near shoreline villages
◦ Further north were the Eskimo and Inuit