c2 American History before 1776.ppt

American History 1776 1861 1900 Period I before independence (mix) Period II state formation ( system, land, culture, race,) Period III development (Indian reservations) Period IV achievements and changes Before 1776 1. American Discovery 2. Land occupation 3. North American Continent 4. Conflicts with motherland 5. Independence Before 1776 American Discovery Ice Age Asian Migration I. The Native American people are of Asiatic disent. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers who migrated to the American continent over Bearing Sea land-ice bridge at the last Ice Age probably about 12,000 years ago. Many Native Americans never evolved beyond the hunter-gather stage. Others civilizations developed sedentary agriculture(mostly corn in the north and potato in Andes). Languages: In 1492 there were at least 350 different languages spoken by the Native Americans north of Mexico, including Eskimos and Aleuts, and perhaps some 1,500 languages spoken in Mexico and Central and South America. These are totals of separate languages--not dialects American Indians In North American (United States) By white standards there are five more advanced than other Indians, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles as Five Civilized Tribes. Great Civilizations 3 The three best known civilizations:Maya, Aztec, and Inca A. The Aztec were a war-like people located in the central valley of Mexico and dominated much of southern Mexico during the 15th and early 16th centuries until the arrival of the Spanish . The Mexica by the 15th century had organized a military alliance with neighboring Nahua tribes known as the Aztec Confederation. Mexico city was the center. Inca The Inca until the early 15th century were but one of a large number of tribes situated in the Andes and narrow coastal plain from Chile north to Colombia Whites Before 1776 Before 1776 III. North American Continent Of first three quarters of the 17th century, the majority was English. Other than