PreColumbian America

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Pre-Columbian America

• Settlement Patterns
• Culture
• Mesoamerica

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Bering Strait/Beringia pg 201
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Waves 35,000 10,000 yrs ago
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Pack Animals
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Hunter Gatherers Clovis Points
Spears and arrows With fluted bases
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Agriculture irrigation

• Americas lacked the plow and large animals to
  pull it no beasts of burden only llama in
  Andes
• Beans, corn (maize), squash, sweet potato, and
  potatoes add other indigenous foods avocado,
  chili peppers, tomatoes, plantains and cassava
• Subsistence farming, then surplus population
  growth and trade especially true in
  Mesoamerican and Andean

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American Agriculture
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Mesoamerican Mayan
Mayans pyramids shaped buildings,
writing System, solar eclipses, solar calendar,
counting System, --- worn out soil slash and burn
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Mayan Calendar and Counting
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Mayan Astronomy
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Aztecs 1200
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Aztec Rituals human sacrifice
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Inca Empire
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Machu Picchu 17,000 ft
Great engineers Roads, fortresses, bridges Used
runners Education in Quechua Records in quipu -
data
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North America
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The Great Southwest

• Use of irrigation, canals to raise corn/maize
• Adobe sun dried bricks very thick walls

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Great Northwest fish (salmon), shell fish, seas
mammals and game bear, deer, bear etc
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Great Plains tepees, buffalo, beans, corn
squash seasonal migrations
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Eastern and Southern Woodlands

• Deer, rabbit, squirrel, turkey
• Fish
• Corn
• Bean
• Squash