Americas Before Europeans Intro

What is Indigenous?

• •an excess amount of food. There is more food than needed.

• •A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. Most powerful are at the top.

• •Describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.

• •a government or state with formal, centralized institutions

What is Hierarchy?

• describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.

• •refers to the history of the Americas BEFORE the arrival of Europeans.

• •trade with other societies

• •A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. Most powerful are at the top.

What is Food Surplus?

• social differentiation

• an excess amount of food. There is more food than needed.

• describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.

• Public works and architecture

Why was a food surplus needed to build a civilization?

• allows civilization to settle and grow. Trade, cities and hierarchy are now possible.

• describes any group of people native to a specific region. People who lived there before European colonists or settlers arrived.

• Mesoamerica: Home to the Maya and Aztec  

• Different types of crops were exclusive to each culture area

What are the 6 features of civilization?

• 1) Earth

  2) Wind

  3) Fire

  4) Water

  5) Snow

  6) Rivers

• 1) Government or state

  2) Social classes

  3) Trade

  4) Religion

  5) Public works

  6) Arts and literature

What are the two culture areas we will study?

• 1) Aztecs

  2) Incas

• 1) South America

  2) El Salvador

• 1) MesoAmerica

  2) Andean America

• 1) Olmecs

  2) Toltecs

What are the three Civilizations we will study?

• MesoAmerica, Andean America, North America

• Aztec, Mayan, Incan

Choose the correct culture area and civilization.

• MesoAmerica = Incan

• Andean America = Mayan

• MesoAmerica = Aztec

• Andean America = Aztec

Choose the correct culture area and civilization.

• Andean America = Incan

• MesoAMerica = Incan

• Andean America = Aztec

• Andean America = Mayan

Choose the correct culture area and civilization.

• MesoAmerica = Incan

• MesoAmerica = Mayan

• Andean America = Mayan

• Andean America = Aztec