Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• The American Indians- North and South America are known for diversity of there landsape and climate.
• Despite there very diverse cultures, many Indian cultures shared a number of characteristics .
• Some Indians became shamans.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• Agriculture leads to the growth of civilization- the methods of cultivation spread northward into American Southwest and Midwest.
• Many Indians did not adopt agricultural way of life and thrived.
• They farmed because fish and game were so plentiful.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• While native American cultures thrived in the Americas, life in Europe was changing rapidly.
• The period of the 14th to the 16th centuries when great advances in science,economics,political thought, and art that occured in Europe is called the Renaissance.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• The West Africans- Highly civilized and densely populated, African kingdoms had a very strong agricultural system.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• The Conquistadores- The spanish rapidly conquered a vast empire around the Caribbean and in Central and South America.
• Other Spanish explored and conquered other parts of North America.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• The American Revolution- European nations explored the Americans and began establishing colonies.
• Eventually these colonies would declare their independance from England.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• Wealth flowed into Spain from its colonies in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
• The French established colonies in Canada along the coast of Nova Scotia and the St. Lawrence River.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• The English developed a third cluster of colonies between Maryland and New England.
• They conquered Dutch and remained in New York.
• The plantation relyed on the labor of enslaved Africans.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• As English colonist broughtideas about democracy and republican goverment.
• The colonists beleived that they were gone intitled.

Lapsansky-Werner et al.   Chapter 1  The Nations Beginning

• During the 1700s ideas based on the Enlightenment circulated among well educated American colonists.
• All the problems could be solved.
• It traditions where limited to the people.