US period one Flashcards
of native american
50-100 million ppl before columbus
1-10 mil in north america
when did Asian cross over bering
35,000 BCE - 10,000 BCE
before columbus
after crossing, groups of 25-50 ppl in group
ice age ended
central america & peru: densely populated
Southwest
Puelbo
agricultural, norm population, multi structural dome.
Mesoamerica
Mexico
most populated and developed. 1st to cultivate (5,000 BCE)
Aztec
Gautemala
Mayans
very advance
math, science, huge surplus, no wheels)
hieroglypics
3 sister crops: grow together
squash
corn/maiz
bean
south of alaskan coast
alot of natural resources. no agri. long houses.
West canada
stayed in nome. HnG, spare population, great basin
Plain/middle
3sistercrop, seminomadic. HnG. live along river bank and along underneath earthen mounds
Eastern USA
creek, cherokee, eurique, mgonquin
Missipean period (1000-1340)
cahokoa, biggest AI settlement, big mound buildings. disperse bc of columbus
Large AI communities
- Algonquian= northeast
- siouan= great plains
- athabaskan= southwest
southwest AI
new mexico and arizona
hokokam
Anasazi
pueblos
(farming, caves and talll building)
Northwest AI
pacific coast and alaska
permanent longhouse/plank, hunting/fishing, HnG. tall mtn, isolation
great plain
nomadic/sedentary (buffalo, tepees). farming hunted and lived in permanent earthen lodges. 3 sistercrops. Horses: Lakota Sioux used them for hunting .
Apaches: migrated southward from canada to texas
Midwest AI
east of missippit
woodland american indiand, hunting/fishing and agri, permanent settle. Adena Hopewell: ohio, earthen mounds. large: Cahokia
Northeast AI
ohio to NY
hunting and farming. descendent of Adena-Hopewell. Iroquois: political union of 5 tribes . Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk
Atlantic Seaboard AI
new jersey south florida, coastalplains
descendant of woodland mound builders and built timber and bark lodging. lived near rivers
Protestant Reformation
revolt in: Germanu, England, France, Holland.
Catholic: Spain n portugal
Protestant: England and Holland
Portuguese slaves
African island for sugar: Madeira and Azores
Amerigo Vespucci
america named after this italian sailor
EU got syphilis
AI got smallpox and measles
line of demarcation
1493 pope drew verticle line to solve conflict btw spain and portugal