3 Worlds Meet
Chapter 1
Coming to America
Section 1
Ancient People
 1st people 22,000 years ago
 Bering Strait or Beringia – Russia/Alaska
 Big game hunters – Mammoth
 Nomadic – moving from place to place in
search of food
 Agriculture develops about 5 to 10
thousand years ago
Society Develops
 Civilizations begin developing in America
about 3,000 years ago.
 Activity – What attributes/characteristics
do you look for in a civilization?
 Middle and South America
 Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
 Desert Farmers – in and around AZ
 Hohokam, Anasazi
 Mound Builders
 Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian
North American
Societies
Around 1492
Section 2
Tribal Life
 Activity – What would be 3 main things
that Native American tribes would base
their lives on?
 Read Pgs. 9-10 make 2 bullet points for
each of the following groups:
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California
Northwest Coast
Southwest
Eastern Woodlands
Shared Cultural Patters
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Trading Networks – sharing of goods and
skills
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Land Use – “land is the source of life”
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Not to be sold – conflicts with whites
Religion – “Great Spirits”
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Elaborate trails
Living or Not
Social Organization –
1. Family (respect of elders)
2. Division of labor – do your part
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Encounters
Section 5
Columbus’ Journey - 1492
 Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
 Find gold, spread Christianity
 Landed in the Caribbean Islands
 Thought he was in Asia or the “Indies”
 Would return with many settlers beginning
cultural clash
 Activity – describe what cultural problems
would occur if you would move to Japan or any
other foreign country?
Colonization
 Colonization – the establishment of distant
settlements controlled by a parent country
 Spaniards forcing their ways on the natives
 Attempted forced labor, resistance
 Conquistador – conqueror
 Disease wipes out natives
 African slave trade begins
 Trade of goods to and from Europe, Africa and
Asia (map on pg 29)
Debate
 Read debate on pg. 30
 Create chart below
Point
Counterpoint
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 Write a 1 paragraph opinion of this debate