Homework 04-09-2014
•Booklets are due
TOMORROW!
•Quiz on the Empires of the
Americas is TOMORROW!
•Study Guide due
TOMORROW!
Reminders 04-04-2014
• Quiz Correction African Empires
due by Wednesday, April 9th
• Booklet Africa and the Americas
due Thursday, April 10th
• Quiz on the Civilizations of the
Americas will be Thursday, April
10th
6-4.4
Explain the contributions,
features, rise and fall of the
North American ancestors of
the numerous Native
American tribes, including the
Adena, Hopewell, Pueblo, and
Mississippian cultures.
ANASAZI Cultural Area(500 A.D.-1200
A.D.)
• Civilization grew up in
what is now the
southwestern United
States (Colorado, Utah,
New Mexico, and
Nevada.)
• The area lacked a lot of
rainfall, so the Anasazi
used ditches, dams, and
canals to capture
whatever rain they got
and channel the water to
their crops.
Anasazi Homes
• The Anasazi built stone
and mud homes that
were called PUEBLO.
Pueblos were kind of
like huge apartment
buildings.
• The largest city in the
area called Pueblo
Bonito which had
around 800
apartments with over
1,000 people living
there
ADENA and HOPEWELL Tribes (on the
Ohio River Valley)
• Around 700 B.C. the
ability to farm reached
the ADENA tribe (1000
B.C.-200 B.C.) (on the
Ohio River Valley)
• The ADENA were known
for making amazing
pottery and copper
jewelry.
ADENA and HOPEWELL
• The ADENA and
HOPEWELL (200
B.C. to 500 A.D.) are
most remembered
today for producing
amazing burial
mounds
MISSISSIPPIAN Cultural Area
• Around 800 A.D. the
MISSISSIPPIAN culture
grew up around the
Mississippi River.
• The grew MAIZE (Corn)
and beans. Their success
as farmers caused their
population to grow very
quickly.
• For an unknown reason
this civilization died out
around 1300 A.D.