Michelle Fortner
Mr. Beggs
History of the Americas 9 (1)
12 August 2015
The Earliest Americans Questions
For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
Beringia: The land bridge that existed between Alaska and Siberia that enabled migration of humans and animals to North America. Ice Age: A cold period marked by extensive glaciation. Maize: Corn.
Which effect do you think had the most significant impact on the Americas? Explain.
The effect that I think had the most significant impact on the Americas is agriculture because lives for people became easier. Before they hunted or gathered what they ate, and afterwards they benefited from a more steady and dependable food source. Before they regularly moved to look for “big
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What sorts of changes did farming bring?
The sort of changes that farming brought were: people benefiting from a further steady and dependable food source, settling down and building vaster communities, concentrating on contemporary skills (architecture, arts and crafts, social organization), and elaborated societies eventually emerging.
Why do you think early Americans, isolated from the rest of the world, developed in ways similar to other early humans?
I think that early Americans, isolated from the rest of the world, developed in ways similar to other early humans because the basic needs of all humans are the same: food, water, and shelter, and those are what all humans looked for.
What sailing routes might early humans have traveled to the Americas?
The sailing routes early humans might have traveled to the Americas include the coastal route down the western coast of the Americas.
What sorts of problems might the earliest Americans have encountered in their travels?
The sorts of problems that the earliest Americans might have encountered in their travels include food shortages, water shortages, little-covering clothes, clothes shortages, heavy storms, and many
The Native Americans are in fact civilized, and this can be seen through their great strides in agricultural methodology and technology. Similar to Europeans, most Native Americans have graduated from hunting and gathering methods and have moved on to agriculture, as it is a more reliable source of food. As a result of the most recent expedition to the Americas, a group of pilgrims’ The Mayflower, a lot has been discovered about Native American agriculture. Although the Native Americans use primitive tools “made of stone, animal bone, and tortoise shell to grow crops of squash, pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, and maize, their crops yielded far better results than Europeans’, and
According to the standard accepted theory, the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas. The Clovis people crossed the Beringia land bridge during the period of the last ice age, from there they spread across the Americas through an ice free-corridor. However, recent finding have suggested that the first people did not walk to America but came by boat. This paper will examine evidence found in Haida Gwaii and other sites along North and South America that supports a different view of human migration to the Americas, the coastal migration theory.
The first Americans came from Asia, beginning as early as thirty thousand years ago, over a land bridge that formed at the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. The new immigrants were hunters and gatherers, and over a period of fifteen thousand years various groups spread over the American continents. By the time of the European “discovery” of the New World, there were perhaps as many as 100 million native Americans, the vast majority living in Central and South America.
The bering strait theory is named after Vitus Bering. It is also known as the land bridge theory as well, the theory takes places during the ice age it is said that the waters of the Bering straits were frozen over and match up, making sea levels lower which allowed the natives of North America to cross over from Asia via Siberia. They did not walk over ice they made a route. This is the origin of our fellow native people. Many believe that the first people to populate the Americas migrated across the Bering Land Bridge while tracking large game animal herds. Becoming the roots of the bering strait theory. It s model of how migration started. Even today this shows us how many have crossed america looking for something more alongside a greater quality of life.
The excepted social theory of civilization’s social process was made by the scientists Adam Smith, John Millar, Adam Ferguson, and lastly Lord Kames. This social theory was that there were many levels of civility in a society. These levels were hunting, pasturage, agriculture, and commerce. One example of the first level which is hunting is the the Native Americans. The excepted social process is that a country was to go through all of these levels by starting out on hunting and eventually the society would mature and work its way up to the point of being a commercially based society. Now this process helped shaped the colonies culture of “civility” because the colonists were never hunters. When the colonists got to the North America
One reason is because of the domesticated animals brought by the Europeans to the New World. The Europeans had domesticated animals such as sheeps, goats, cows, pigs, horses, and camels while the Native Americans on the other hand did not have these types of animals. Instead the Native. Americans had bisons and llamas.
Unity within colonies was extremely strong because it was assembled in a primal urge for survival. The colonists were in this entirely new land, so it was natural they would stick together to the familiar, and therefore build strong bonds and loyalty to their colony. Exclusion also excellently describes early America because of the way colonies expelled their own people if they did not follow the colony's strict rules' of life. The primary source documents; "City upon a Hill", "Ann Hutchinson's Trial", "Founding Of The Iroquois League", and "The Mayflower Compact" are all brilliant examples of this contradictory yet surprisingly honest view of early American history. Early American History should be remembered as
The development has influenced America in further growth and today America is one of the leading counties in each and every
D B Q Americans in the colonial period were primarily concerned with matters of religion and conscience. In every aspect of their society, religion and morality was one of the first things that came into focus. In 1688, a group of Quakers voted in favor of a resolution against slavery. Their reason for doing this was that slavery was bad enough for any human being to partake in, let alone Christians like themselves. The Quakers were a non-discriminatory group of people who believed in religious as well as personal freedom.
Several centuries before the American Revolution in 1775, the colonial south was occupied by people with different and cultures developed over the years from their interaction with nature and other communities. The communities lived unperturbed, working to meet their daily basic needs and increasing gradually to become a larger community. In North America which forms the basis of this discussion, native communities shifted their habits based on seasons. Their feeding habits were determined by the food availed by nature and the current season. For instance, during spring, there were massive amounts of fish such as herring and shad.
They already learned to survive and adapt to the harsh climate of the Northeast Asia, so they were able to walk as well as “watercraft” across to North America.
Back in the time the Native Americans had two types of cultures and they were social and material. Each of these cultures were based on a different characteristic. For example, material people were simple, they had language barriers, body painted themselves, lived in villages and used their most common boat called the Tule Balsa . Meanwhile the social group outnumbered the rest, they were peaceful, unaggressive, lived near Rivers or Southern, Northwestern, Northeastern, had a lot of wealth and knowledge. I feel like the reason why there are many diverse cultures developed was because they wanted to organize their culture based on the abilities that the family had or even putting them into classes by their wealth status. This gave them the
America the home of the free, is where many people from different back grounds came to seek a better life. A variety of culture and traditions where brought to America when many migrated. For one to see if any America practices, traditions, holidays, etc. that cannot be trace to a different country of origin, one must ask who originally were the first Americans. In my research to answer this question, I have found that it’s very difficult to get a straight answer. Discovering that no one know who live in America first Mongoloid, Paleoamerican or Native American and all of them had migrated from other countries as well. Then would do we know what aspects of American are uniquely American?
TheAmericancivilizationalso followed Christianity-Catholic church as in Rome. Organizedreligion with rules and religious division between the Protestants, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Christianity.Specialization come out of American civilization in the sources of arrows, blades, painting, structure designs, dancing.Trade took place near water, with open trade and travel. Most items were produced and consumed local but was trading of good such as pottery, gold and copperCities traits in the Americancivilization were some what like thatof the Roman civilization. They were both comparable in size, cities used for farming and manufacturing. Coliseums, sportsarenas, fabulous, beautifularchitecture.
One of the biggest problem for America to colonize the Philippine was, that the islands were 6,000 miles away from the pacific coast (USA). Another problem