Rivers in the Southeastern Us

1. Potomac
2. James
3. Roanoke
4. Savanna
5. Chattahoochee
6. Mississippi
7. Red

1. Ohio
2. Illinois
3. Mississippi
4. Platte
5. Arkansas

1. Sonoran
2. Painted
3. Mojave

1. Pecos
2. Rio Grande
3. Colorado
4. Gia
5. Snake
6. Columbia
7. Sacramento
8. San Juaquin

1. Appalachian
2. Cascade
3. Klamath
4. rocky
5. Sierra Nevada

1. Northern California to Southern Alaska
2. Salmon fishers
3. Permament Settlements

1. Anasazi Native Americans

Cliff Dwellers

Grand Canyon ,Four Corners Area

Terrace Farmers ,Irrigation / Maize

Hunters

Drought  13th Century

Migration into Rio Grande Area  Puelble Civilizations

Pueblos  Apartment Constructors (not in cliffs)

Matrilinear

Still occupied

Plains Indians

1. nomadic hunters / gatherers
2. Prey =Mamoths > Bison

1. Mound Builders
2. bow / arrow
3. maize
4. farming
5. flint hoes
6. permanent settlements
7. largest settlement = Cahokia (near present day St.Louis)

1. Northeastern US  / New York - Ontario, Canada
2. Matralineal
3. cultivation
4. 5 nations

1. Linguistically / racially diverse
2. Florida
3. Joined by runaway slaves

1. 1492 - discovery of New World
2. Npanish monarchs = Ferdinand / Isabella
3. Motivation = Gold / Converts

1. Spanish viceroyalty
2. virtual slavery involving conversion and sevitude

1519 = Finds Southern Route to the Pacific Ocean

1. 1524
2. French
3. Searching for Northwest passage to the Pacific

How did the following countries extract wealth from the New World?

1. Spain
2. England
3. France

1.  Encomienda System = Exploitation of Native Amerian labor.
2. Joint Stock Companies used to finance permanent settlement.
3. French = Fur trade

1. Champlain
2. Joliet
3. LaSalle

Claimed land drained by ST Lawrence and Mississippi rivers for France.

Spanish Explorers

Who explored the Caribbean?

Spanish Explorers

Who explored Florida?

Spanish Explorers

Who explored the Southeastern United States?

Spanish Explorers

Who explored the Southwestern United States?

Spanish Explorers

Who explored the California coast?

Spanish Explorers

Who else explored the southwestern United States?

Spanish Explorer

Who explored Mexico?

English / Dutch Explorer

Who explored Northeastern Coastal United States and inland waterways?

French Explorers

Who explored the upper St. Lawrence as far as Montreal and Northeastern Canada?  

French Explorers

Who explored the St. Lawrence river and Great Lakes?

French Explorers

Who explored the lower Mississippi and New Orleans?

Columbian Exchange

Europe > America

Coffee

Sugar

Rice

Horses

Pigs

Cattle

Smallpox

Influenza

Measles

Columbian Exchange

America > Europe

tobacco

cotton

vanilla

chocolate

corn

potatoes

fur

1. Area between the Tigris and the Euphrates
2. Today = Iraq + parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran
3. Considered the cradle of civilization
4. Bronze Age = Sumer, Babylonian, Assyrian Empires
5. Iron Age = Neo-Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian Empires

1. Constructed dykes and reservoirs
2. probably invented writing (cuneiform)
3. Amorites or Old Babylonians = Hanging Gardens
4. King Mammurabi - Legal Code = "Eye for an Eye"

Assyrians

1. 1100-612 BCE
2. Conquered Syria, Palestine, and much of Mesopotamia
3. Militaristic
4. Conquered by Chaldeans (new Babylonians) 612-538 BCE

1. King Cyrus - Conquered the Assyrians
2. Road Networks
3. Religion = Zoroastrianism

1. Ruled by Pharaohs
2. Pyramids of Giza
3. enslavement of the Jews
4. Conquered successively by Assyrians, Persians Alexander the Great and finaly the Roman Empire
5. Vasilated between monotheism and polytheism.
6. Stared the notion of an afterlife.

1. Settled along the coast of present day Lebanon
2. Established colonies at Carthage and Spain.
3. Spread Mesoptamian culture through their trade networks.

1. Moved to Egypt around 1700 BCE
2. Fled Egypt under Moses around 1200 BCE - returned to Palesine.
3. 10 tribes of Israel disappeared after Israel was conquered by Assyria

1. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey = Poems - courage, honor, heroism
2. Hesiod's Words and Days + Theogony = Greek Myths and Religion
3. Archaic Period = 800 - 500 BCE
4. Polis = City State
5. Democratic Government replaced tyrants = 6th century
6. Sparta / Athens

Greece

Peloponnesian War

1. Between Athens and Sparta
2. 431 - 404 BCE
3. Athens = Defeated
4. Sparta = Weakened
5. Sparta later fell victive to Thebes????
6. Greek City states reunited by conquest of Alexander the Great
7. (Beginning of the Hellenistic age)