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Americas
Big
Didn’t invent the wheel
Agriculture
Slash & burn
Corn
Potatoes
Tobacco
Cocoa (Chocolate)
3 Distinct Divisions
North America
Forests in east plain in middle Desert in west
Central America
(Mesoamerica)
-united with similar culture
South America
Rain forest in east
Indigenous people, no farming west = Andes mountains
North American Civilization
Anasazi (700BC - 400 AD)
In south west - (first farming peoples in North America)
Lived in cliffs in pueblos
No writing - mystery why they left
Great plains Indians “Mound builders”
Adena (500 - 100 AD)
Hopewell (100 AD - 400 AD) ------- politically organized into clans, decentralized
Mississippian (700 AD - 1400 AD)