AJ Ch. 1 Q's

Arctic Yupi’k Inupiat Inuit	Present Day Nevada/ Great Basin Northern Paiute Paiute	Great Plains Blackfoot Crow Sioux Omaha Cheyanne	Southeast Choctaw Yuchi
Subarctic Cree Tanaina Ojbway Onondaga	Present Day California Pomo Chumash	Northeast Iroquois Miami Winnebago Shawnee Pawnee Cherokee Powhatawn
Northwest Coast Tlingt Haida Kwakiutl Nootka Chinook Tillamook	Plateau/ Washington Yakima Palus Nez Percé Walla Walla	Southwest Navajo Hopi Zuni Pueblo Apache

2. The North American continent had many different organized groups of people. It resembles, at least to me, earlier Europe during the early/late Medieval times, but more cultured. They nations intersected but were, for the most part, small tribes who are beginning to spend time on art.

3. The Onondga, Seneca, Mohawk, Cayauga, and the Oneida joined together to form the Iroquois league or federation.  They formed this group sometime in the late 1500’s to encourage peace among the different tribes. All of them together as one unified force created a very powerful nation.

4. Hieroglyphs are pictures that represent an idea or thing in real life. They are used to communicate ideas to others. The Mayans used hieroglyphs.

5. In the Southwest adobe houses were the most common type of homes.

6. Maize, or corn, was the first crop raised in modern, Mexico. This stable crop was an essential factor in the development of culture in the Americas.


From Yesterday

How Crusades Affected America?

Roman Empire falls then splits into multiple pockets of countries

1095 – 1291 ---- Technical Crusade           

Come into contact with Muslims

                        Discover a taste for Asian spices, trade

13^th – 14^th – Renaissance begins in Italy

                        Immediate trade through Asia

                        Don’t want to pay tax so they begin to look for different trade routes

1492 – Columbus goes to America looking for resources, trade

How many Native Americans in 1491?

1-100 million estimates by historians

            Some groups almost 90% of certain groups of natives were wiped out

Advantages over the Natives?

Diseases

Weapon Technology

Writing

What did Europe want in the East Indies?

Spices

Sugar

Technology

Competing with other Euro. countries

How was Marco Polo important to discovery of America?

Wrote a book about the Indies and its womders.

The book influenced Christopher Columbus.