Native American
Migration/culture
• Believed that the earliest settlers came into America over a land bridge over the Bering straits thousands of years ago.
• Culture is tribal and based on a variety of hunting gathering, agricultural styles and trade that varies from area to area.
• Religions are based spiritualism. Spirits and animal guides fill the world and guide Native American's. Man is seen as a part of nature.
Southwest/southern
• 11,000bc-today
• Southwestern US
• Pueblo, Cherokee Apache,Navajo
• major trade route, Adobe houses, farming,Language, Gov..
• Mesa Verda
Northwest woodlands• 11,000 BC-Today
• Southeastern Canada, Great lakes, Northeastern and mid-west US.
• Cahokia,Iroquois Delaware
• Farming,Trade, Mounds, cities. Houses and long houses
• Cahokia
Great Plains
• 11,000 years ago to Today.
• Central US
• Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche , crow
• Bow, Sign language, horse, Teepee, dried meat
• no cities, Black Hills
Northern/Northwest
• 11,000 years ago-today
• Alaska,Canada and North America
• Eskimo(Inuit), Chinook
• Fishing,totems, trade, igloo, huts
• no ruins
Mayan
• 300 ad to 900 ad
• Yucatan
• Trade, farming war
• Pyramids, building,astronomy, writing system, blood sacrifice
• Kulkulkan, Chicanitza
• Lost faith and left their civilization
Aztecs
• 1200-1500 ad
• central Mexico
• trade, art war
• warfare, human sacrifice
• teontchilan
• Spanish destroyed them
Incas
• 1300-1500aAD
• Andes Mts.
• Trade, Farming, Arts
• Domestication of Animals, medicine, arts roads
• Machu Pichu
• Spanish conquest