unit 1 history  

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How many people arrived in North America?

10,000/over 40,00 years ago on the land bridge- Pangera.

Language Differences

1490/ Spanish, English, European lang.- Indo European= big family American Indian= 20 lang. coming from Algonquian in New England Siouan Athabaskan in SW/ 400 distinct lang.

Addition of Enslaved Africans

Enslaved Africans brought diversity. They were bought by Europeans for low cost labor for plantations. All three cultures influence each others ideas and ways of life.

Motives for Exploration

Spanish, Portuguese, the French and Dutch, later complete for land/ the spread of the word of God/ wealth in Asia throughout the trading in the water routes/ profit = living life

How many Natives were estimated to be in the America's by 1491?

50 Mil./ 100 Mil. people

cultural diversity in the Americas

After Columbus reached America everything changed. each culture developed different and unique traits. Native Americans changed all of their ways of the environment. dry regions- irrigation systems forest regions- set fires for the new way of agriculture.

European Colonies

All within a century Spanish and Portuguese explorers developed colonies that depend on Native and Enslaved Africans for labor in Mining, Agriculture, Metals and etc. Mexico/ South America- Silver- Spain becoming wealthy in the 16th/17th century.

Mayas, Aztecs, Incas

Mayan- Cities were built in rainforest/ 300-800/ Yucatán Peninsula(Guatemala, Belize) Aztecs- Tenochitlán in Central America/ 200,000 population Incas- a Vast empire in Peru/ South America

Transatlantic Exchange

invented by Columbus it was a fast sea route to Asia. Exchange of plants animals people and ideas. Caused spread of disease and became the first global trade network. Because of the Columbian exchange world trade shifts from mediterranean to Atlantic./ Germs in Europe - epidemic in America/ Native population went down by 90% after the European settlement.

General Patterns

less complex/ corn- was slow in Mexico/ Corn nutrition-more dense population- Mexico being more social Men made the tools and hunted while Woman gathered crops and took care of the children


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