History

1. History Chapter 1 Study Guide

2. Early Life, East and West • On theory about how early peoples migrated from Asia to the Americas is that they walked across a land bridge. • One theory about why early peoples migrated from Asia to the Americas was that they were hunters following animals.

3. Early Life, East and West • During the Ice Age, early Americans got food by hunting animals. • Most early people lived wherever food was found during the Ice Age.

4. Early Life, East and West • When the large animals died out during the Ice Age, people became hunter-gathers. • The effect of agriculture on the way of life of the early peoples was that they settled in one place.

5. Early Life, East and West • One purpose of the mounds built by the Mound Builders was that the mounds were burial places for important chiefs. • The Mound Builders were able to build enormous structures because they were well organized.

6. Early Life, East and West • The Anasazi were the first to use irrigations in what is now the United States; grew corn, squash, beans, and pumpkins; and were know as the “Cliff Dwellers.”

7. Early Life, East and West • The Anasazi became successful farmers in the desert because they dug ditches to carry water from streams to their crops. • The Inuit traveled from Asia to America 2,500 years ago and stayed near they Arctic Ocean.

8. Early Life, East and West • The Inuit hunted walruses; developed the kayak; and built igloos. • The Mayan were extremely successful at farming. • Some Mayan began to specialize because they had a food surplus.

9. Early Life, East and West • The result of the Mayan study of the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets was and extremely accurate calendar. • The Aztec go more land for farming by creating floating gardens, carving terraces into hillsides, and developing irrigation systems.

10. Early Life, East and West • The Aztecs extended their boarders to reach the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans by conquering other peoples in the valley of Mexico.