Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1450-1700
Essential Questions:
How were the economic systems of the Native Americans and the Europeans the same and how were they different?
The economic systems between the Native Americans and the Europeans were the same by the way they were structured both had rulers and they were different by
What impact did environment play in the development of Native American cultures?
Was the Native American belief system (religion) more similar or different from the European belief system? Explain your answer.
What led to the rise of the slave trade?

Key People, Concepts, and Ideas:

Term
Significance
Bering Strait
A 100 mile wide land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska. Then the glaciers melted and the rising ocean …show more content…
Also had a dense population, productive agriculture, and an aggressive bureaucratic state.
Cahokia
Cahokia emerged around 1000 as the foremost center of the new Mississippian culture. It declined rapidly after peaking in size which exceeded 10,000. Its decline was probably caused by an era of ruinous warfare.
Eastern Woodland Indians 12
The mississippian-influenced peoples od the southeast interacted with other groups,many of them adopted maize agriculture but did not display Mississippian characteristics. Throughout the eastern woodlands , women tended crops, gathered plants, and oversaw affairs within the community, while men were responsible for activities beyond it, such as hunting, fishing, and warfare.
Algonquian 12
The Algonquian people had no single style of political organization. Many were chiefdoms. With one individual claiming preeminent power in a community and some were paramount chiefdoms, in which numerous communities with their own local chiefs banded together under a single, more powerful ruler.
Pueblo Cultures 16
Pueblo Cultures emerged around A.D. 600. By A.D. 1000 all Pueblo people had developed irrigation systems to manage scarce water, that enabled them to build sizable villages and towns of adobe and rock that were often molded to sheer canyon