Native American

Migration/culture

• Believed that the earliest settlers came into America over a land bridge over the Bering straits thousands of years ago.

• Culture is tribal and based on a variety of hunting gathering, agricultural styles and trade that varies from area to area.

• Religions are based spiritualism. Spirits and animal guides fill the world and guide Native American's. Man is seen as a part of nature.

Southwest/southern

• 11,000bc-today

• Southwestern US

• Pueblo, Cherokee Apache,Navajo

• major trade route, Adobe houses, farming,Language, Gov..

• Mesa Verda

Northwest woodlands• 11,000 BC-Today

• Southeastern Canada, Great lakes, Northeastern and mid-west US.

• Cahokia,Iroquois Delaware

• Farming,Trade, Mounds, cities. Houses and long houses

• Cahokia

Great Plains

• 11,000 years ago to Today.

• Central US

• Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche , crow

• Bow, Sign language, horse, Teepee, dried meat

• no cities, Black Hills

Northern/Northwest

• 11,000 years ago-today

• Alaska,Canada and North America

• Eskimo(Inuit), Chinook

• Fishing,totems, trade, igloo, huts

• no ruins

Mayan

• 300 ad to 900 ad

• Yucatan

• Trade, farming war

• Pyramids, building,astronomy, writing system, blood sacrifice

• Kulkulkan, Chicanitza

• Lost faith and left their civilization

Aztecs

• 1200-1500 ad

• central Mexico

• trade, art war

• warfare, human sacrifice

• teontchilan

• Spanish destroyed them

Incas

• 1300-1500aAD

• Andes Mts.

• Trade, Farming, Arts

• Domestication of Animals, medicine, arts roads

• Machu Pichu

• Spanish conquest