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us history 10

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History, Social Studies, Geography

8th - 10th Grade

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5 Slides • 4 Questions

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North America Before Columbus

Mesoamerican Cultures

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Agricultural Revolution

began in Mesoamerica - grew crops instead of hunter/gatherer lifstyle. Allowed for large civilizaitons to form

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3

Multiple Choice

Where was Mesoamerica located?

1

Central America

2

South America

3

North America

4

Mesopotamia

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Major Mesoamerican Groups

  • The Olmecs - 1st to develop civilization around 1350BC

  • The Maya - great at engineering and mathematics - disappeared around 900AD

  • Toltec and Aztec -Aztec conquered the Toltec around 1150AD and created the first large empire. Practiced human sacrifice.

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Western Cultures

  • Technology spread out of Mesoamerica, up the Mississippi River and into the American South West

  • Many different peoples and cultures developed as early as 700AD

  • Most lived in cities or villages but some were nomads

6

Poll

Do you have Native American Ancestors?

Yes

No

7

Northeastern Peoples

  • Lived between the Mississippi and Great Lakes

  • Used a farming method called 'slash-and-burn' agriculture, where parts of forests are burned, then cleared for planting.

  • Most spoke Algonquian or Iroquois

  • The Iroquois often fought among themselves until the 1500s when they formed an alliance called the Iroquois Confederacy - which was an oral constitudtion that defined the law.

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Multiple Choice

What allowed most Natives to create civilizations instead of traveling from place to place?

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Human Sacrifice

2

Slash and burn agriculture

3

the Iroquois Confederacy

4

the Agricultural Revolution

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