3. We will be going way back
in time, so we have to rely
on archeology rather than
history.
4. History the study of written artifacts
Archeology the study of artifacts.
5. The Americas 38,000 BCE-1500 CE
• The early inhabitants of the Americas
traveled from Asia across a land
bridge produced by the Ice Age.
Geography influenced the
development of several cultures in
North America.
7. We will look at four of the many
North American cultures and
how geography and climate
effect them.
1. The Inuit
2. The Mound Builders
3. The Iroquois
4.The Anasazi
12. Between 100,000 and 8,000 years ago, the last Ice
Age had low sea levels that made a land bridge in the Bering
Strait between Asia and North America
13.
14.
15. Most likely, they were hunters chasing the herds of
bison and caribou that looked for grazing land in
North America.
16. About 3000 B.C. E, a group of Mesolithic people
called the Inuit moved into North America
from Asia.
17. Mesolithic Age : the stone age period when Humans made more tools and
homes out of wood, and domesticated the wolves.
18. They made a variety of tools, harpoons and spears from
antler or narwhal tusks.
19. The Inuit became skilled at hunting seal, caribou, and fish,
providing them with both food and clothing.
27. The Mound Builders
Around 1000 B.C., a Woodland period semi Neolithic culture flourished on
both sides of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico.
57. The Grand Council met regularly to settle differences among
league members.
58. In the 1500’s Deganawida and Hiawatha advocated the Great Peace,
creating a strong alliance for peace called the Iroquois League.
59. In all of your acts, self-interest shall be cast
away. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole
people, and have always in view . . . the unborn of
the future Nation.”
60. In 1754, Benjamin Franklin used the Iroquois
League as a model for a Plan of Union for the
British colonies.
61. American Revolution
During the American Revolution , the Iroquois divided the League with a
few tribes joining the Americans, most sided with the British.
62. Those that sided with the British fled to Canada, and those with the
USA moved West after the war.