World Geography 11/10/2015
TODAY’S
MIDDLE and SOUTH AMERICA
Isthmus/ Temperatures and Elevation/ African-Central Americans/ Indigenous/
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GRAB A TEXTBOOK
Silently turn to page 188-194 (HOLY COW ONLY 2.5 Pages!)
*If in one minute after the bell you are seated and ready…
Complete only Lecture Question 1-5 CH 17 Sec I.
*IF IT TAKES LONGER COMPLETE:
the “Section Review” on page 194 on a separate sheet of paper
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Discussion: CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY?
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What do you think really happened to the tribe?
Who do you think destroyed the heads?
Why???
DISCUSS with one partner!
Write out your group findings on one full page!
HOW WERE THOSE HEADS FORMED???
NOW WE KNOW! DO YOU???
The Islanders started chopping down the palm trees to make rollers and sledges to
move the statues. They cut the hauhau trees to make the ropes needed to pull and
erect the monuments. By 1400 the palms were well on their way to becoming
extinct, and only a few of the hauhau trees survived.
THE MYSTERY OF
When the last palm
was cut down there was
no longer the wood to make the heavy
EASTER
ISLAND!
canoes needed for long sea voyages or to hunt the porpoises that were an important
part of the Islanders
diet. With
thethe
porpoises
gone
the people
had to turn even
Where
did
heads
come
from?
more to the seabirds, and then the rats, as a source of food. When they were gone,
Who collapsed
made them?
starvation resulted, the government
and cannibalism appeared. Human
could
they
stones
astheheavy
as a house?
bones How
started to
find their
waymove
into trash
pits. By
time Roggeveen
arrived it
was almost all over. ThereCould
were no you
living in
animals
on
Easter
except
the
humans
1720???
and a few domesticated chickens. Nothing larger than insects. And over the barren
landscape stood the cold, stone
statues, theALERT…
strange proof that a great civilization
SPOILER
once must have occupied the island.
MYSTERY SOLVED!
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN OUR CULTURE???