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CHAPTER 16People and Empires in the
Americas
900-1500
SECTION 1: DIVERSE SOCIETIES OF NORTH AMERICA
• Between 40,000 and 12,000 years agoo Hunter-gatherers crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to North Americao Spread across North Americao Adapted to their environment – creating diversity
Complex Societies Build and Trade • North of Rio Grande less
developed than South America and Mesoamerica
Northwest Coast – Cultures of Abundance
• Pacific Northwest-Abundant resources supported large populations
Sea • Hunted whales in canoes Forests
Pueblo People Construct Complex Buildings
• Southwest – harsher, dryer land = deserts
• By 900’s AD – living in pueblos – apartment style compounds made of stone and sun baked clay
Mound Builders Forge Ties with Eastern People- East of Mississippi
• Last mound builders – Mississippians
o Built giant pyramids o Thrived on farming and trade o Governed by priest-rulers
Woodlands Tribes Build Alliances • Woodland tribes and Mississippian
peoples had things in common o Example – environment o Iroquois – Great Lakes region –
common language spoken among several tribes
Cultural Connections Trading Networks Tie Tribes Together • Trade linked the people of North
America • Built trade centers • Traveling merchants • Goods would travel 1000’s of miles
Religion Shapes Views of Life • Another tie was religion • Nature spirits • Mostly polytheistic – however
some believed in one Great Spirit
Shared Social Patterns: • Family was the basis for social
organization o Most lived in extended family
situations o Some were organized into clans –
groups of families from a common ancestor