Ancient Ecuador

In 13,000 bc the first communities in the Americas were established and the first group of people that established tribes were the Paleo-Indians. At this point in time the Ice Age was coming to an end, but there were still huge animals that existed and were hunted by the Paleo-Indians. The tools that they used to hunt big animals like the woolly mammoth were long spears with a sharp end on it made out stone or

The Coastal People and the Plateau People are two native American cultures that shared the environment in Washington. Coastal people lived west of the Cascades in Washington. The Plateau people lived east of the Cascades. Even though they are different native American cultures, they had many things in common. Both native American cultures live in Washington on either side of the Cascades.

One of the first groups of people to dwell in North America were the Ancestral Puebloans also known as the Anasazi. They were a tribe that lived in the Four Corners region which we know today as Mesa Verde. They lived there for hundreds of years and did very well but eventually something drove them out to leave their homes. There are many possible and unknown reasons why the Anasazi disappeared from their cliff dwellings and what remains of them to this day in Pueblo Colorado. Drought and crop failures, and the over use of land and its resources such as soils, forests, and animals that became depleted are the main reasonings for their disappearance. This made them move on to look for new opportunities somewhere else (National Park Service

These nomads continued moving all the way to South America. By the time Europeans arrived in America, there were already at least forty to fifty million indigenous people inhabiting the land (Faber 4-5). Other explorers, from Norway, Greenland, and Iceland reached America centuries before Columbus (Faber ix). Although these people attempted to live in this new land, they didn’t stay long, and failed to create a lasting historical impact (Faber 20-26).

Prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) the Americas were already a home to millions of natives that had already been there for thousands of years. The original natives of America before the arrival of Europeans were descendants of groups of hunters and fishers that crossed the Bering Strait between 15,000-60,000 years ago. Over time these natives developed their own techniques for farming, hunting and fishing. In addition, they had also developed their own religious beliefs, political structures, trading networks and hundreds of different languages. The natives, mostly lived on corn, squash, beans, and some fish, deer and turkey. They lived in 3 different kinds of societies. The three different kinds of societies were nomadic, semi-nomadic and

Native Americans were the first people to live in America before any other man came. It is believed that the Native Americans came from Asia way back during the Ice Age through a land bridge of the Bering Strait. When the Europeans first set foot on America, there were about 10 million Native Americans living in America, North of Mexico (“American”). Native Americans had all separated and made their own tribes. Some of the many Native American tribes that still exist are those of the Iroquoian tribes, consisting of five, now six,

The initial inhabitants of North and South America, known as Paleo-Indians, arrived here over thousands of years ago. It is believed that the Native American forefathers reached this country via a piece of land that linked Asia to North America. Upon arrival, the Paleo-Indians split into numerous tribes. They broke off into a number of tribes, including but not limited to, the Paiutes, the Shoshonis, the Algonquians, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. The Paiutes and the Shoshonis tended to migrate seasonally. They are both tribes that settled in Nevada and Utah. The Algonquian tribe inhabited present-day northeastern United States and eastern Canada. They preferred to remain in their territories, they rarely migrated. The Aztecs, a bellicose nation, colonized what is now Mexico and Guatemala. The Aztecs had gained power over central Mexico before the Spanish accessed the new world. The Mayans also settled in Mexico and Guatemala. They were a very intelligent nation that already had writing and mathematics systems in place by the time the Spanish arrived. The various indigenous tribes then settled in a variety of places across the Americas and formed their own religious and cultural practices.

Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants, they spread throughout North and South America, probably moving as bands composed of extended families.

     The Andes Mountains rise through much of central Ecuador. About half the people live in the valleys and on the plateaus of the Andes. Quito, Ecuador's capital, lies more than 9,000 feet (2,700 meters) above sea level on an Andean plateau. A flat, partly forested, tropical plain extends west of the Andes along the Pacific Ocean. This coastal plain is developing faster than any other part of the country. About half the Ecuadorian people live there.

The Mesoamerica and the Andean regions would not have been the same without the Aztecs and the Incan influence. Although they have some similarities, they differ in religious rituals, political standings, and cultural backgrounds. The

1. Three groups of Amerindians lived in Peru before the arrival on the Incas: the Chavin, the Nasca, and the Huari.

Before the Americans and the Spanish there were many indigenous Indian tribes living and thriving with structure and culture in California. The Paleo-Indians were the first people who entered and inhabited the American continent from Asia during the late Pleistocene period (2

The Chomanche’s tribe was large and divided into eight to twelve independent groups that maintained the same language (derived from the Uto-Aztecan family) and culture instead of forming one group.

what people do, what they say, and the artifacts people use. In class, we studied Peru's culture through college

Before Spanish arrival, the Quichua developed an interesting way of recording events by tying knots in cord andc onsidered pre-literate. Many Quichua migrated east to the Amazon Basin;Because of the different landscape, climate, indigenous plants and animals.Rainforest Quichua remained more isolated from the historical forces that shaped the northern parts of South America. Rivers, not roads, are the primary means of transport. . Conquered by the Inca Empire, But, until the Spanish conquest, the quechua population fell dramatically the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca Emperor, Atahualpa, November 16 1532 because they brought many diseases that eventually wiped out millions of native