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Title: How early civilizations came to exist on the American continent


1
Chapter 1
  • How early civilizations came to exist on the
    American continent
  • 3 Ancient cultures
  • Native Americans
  • West Africa
  • European

2
Beringia Land Bridge
  • Ice Age
  • Beringia Land Bridge
  • Hunters and Gathers (Nomadic)

3
  • Beringia Land Bridge
  • Asia
  • Alaska
  • Siberia
  • Bering Straight
  • North America

4
Civilization
  • The settling down of a peoples and to begin
    forming a distinct culture unique to that group
    of people

5
There are four basic civilizations that formed on
the continent
  • Olmec
  • Maya
  • Aztec
  • Inca

6
Olmec
  • Rain forest
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Passive
  • No threat to self preservation

7
Maya
  • Yucatan Peninsula
  • Sea Faring people
  • Passive

8
Aztec
  • Mexico Valley Region
  • Desert climate
  • Aggressive
  • Descendents of the southwest Indians

9
Culture
  • Those influences that affect the development of
    ourselves as we mature into an adult

10
Native American Cultural Influences
  • Trade Barter vs. Monetary
  • Land - Ownership
  • Religion Spiritual vs. Supreme Being
  • Social Organizations Kinship
  • Division of Labor

11
West African influence
12
3 Basic Kingdoms
  • Songhai
  • Benin
  • Kongo

13
West African Culture
  • Family and government
  • Religion
  • Livelihood
  • Slave Labor

14
Family and Government Lineage
15
Slave Labor
  • Slaves could be freed
  • - Marriage
  • - Adoption

16
European Influence
17
Social Order
  • Hierarchy
  • Nuclear Family

18
Christianity Shapes Europe
  • Crusades
  • Reformation Martin Luther
  • 95 Thesis

19
Changes Invade Europe From East
  • Shipping Caravel
  • Compass
  • Prince Henry the Navigator

20
Renaissance (Rebirth)
  • The renaissance became the biggest contributor of
    the changes that were on the horizon for Europe

21
Explorers Begin the Crossings
22
Columbuss Voyage
  • Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
  • Search for Gold
  • Gives Spain a foothold on the new world

23
Impact on the Native Peoples
  • Colonization
  • Resistance to conquest
  • Disease brought to the new world
  • Slave labor force becomes embedded

24
Impact on Europeans
25
Columbian Exchange
  • Trade goods produced in Europe for goods produced
    in America
  • Beginnings of the triangular trade used in slave
    transportation to the new world

26
Treaty of Tordesillas
  • Divides the new world into two parts
  • Spain everything west of the line
  • Portugal everything east of the line
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