America In The Beginning Who were the first Americans? How and why did they come here? 30,000 years ago During a period of low temperatures called an Ice Age . The world was covered in Glaciers or sheets of ice. This caused ocean levels to rise and expose land. In the Bering straight a land bridge appeared connecting Siberia (Asia) & The Americas This land bridge is known as Beringia . Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or migrated to the America's.
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America In The Beginning
Who were the first Americans?
How and why did they come here?
30,000 years ago During a period of low temperatures called an Ice
Age.The world was covered in Glaciers or sheets of ice.
This caused ocean levels
to riseand expose
land.In the Bering straight a land bridge appeared connecting Siberia (Asia)
& The Americas
This land bridge is known as Beringia.
Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or migrated to the America's.
Hunter's in Asia who
moved from place to place to find food or
nomads followed the mammoths and spread
out or migrated to
the America's
The ice age ended
warming up glaciers causing
water levels to rise
covering up the land bridge
Some animals died off like mammoths.
Living in many different parts of the Americas
the Natives needed to
adjust or adapt to every thing
in the new surrounds that made up each of their own environment
in order to survive.
What happened when they came to America?
How did they meet their new needs?
America In The Beginning
America In The Beginning
Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives used the different natural resources in their own different environments for food, clothing, and shelter.
Different groups in different
environments developed their own beliefs and ways of life or
culture. Groups in the same
environments adapted similar life styles, and
language creating cultural region.
Many Native American have these things in common.1. Nature has a spirit land.2. No one can own land.3. Only use what is needed (no waste).4. Trade was important to most societies.
How did Native Americans adjust to the new environments?
What did they have in common?
8 Cultural Regions
North West Coast
California
Plateau
Great Basin
South West
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
South East
8 Cultural Regions
North West Coast Weather:long cold winterscool summersheavy rainfall
Natural Resources:ocean/beachesthick forests of fir, spruce, and cedarrugged mountainsseafood/salmondeer, moose, bear, elk, beaver, mountain goats
California Weather: rainy wintershot dry summers
Natural Resources:ocean/coastfoothillsvalley'sdesertsmountainsacorns, oak treesgrass, and plantsredwood trees
salmon/seafood/shellfishdeer, rabbits, ducks, roots berries, pine nuts
Great Basin Weather:little rainhot during the day cold at nightNatural Resources:
mostly dessertlow areas surrounded by mountains at the edgeswith valleys that had seasonal lakes and streams
plants that need little water likegrasses, sagebrush, pinion trees, at the outer edges pine trees, and willow
small animals rabbits, lizards, grasshoppers, snakes sometimes ducks , duck eggs during certain seasons seeds, berries pine nuts, roots; cattail.