Early Migration

→ Bering Land Bridge

• Central Asian Hunters

- Big Meltdown on Bridge (12k yrs ago)

→ Agriculture Revolution

• Domesticated Crops

Central Mexico

• “Three Sisters”

  • Corn/Maize

  • Beans

  • Squash

• Dogs

  • Mexico Hairless Dogs

• “Beasts of Burdens”

  • Work Animals

“Big 3”

- Aztecs

- Incas

- Maya

→ Aztecs

• Complex Govt

• Tax System

• Calendars

• Writing System

• Pop 250k

  • Port Cadiz (30k ppl) 

Disappearance 

• Chaco Canyon (100 B.C)

• New Mexico 

- Ohio Valley 

• “Mound Builders”

-Trade Links (U.S - Mesoamerica)

Eastern Woodlands Cultures

→ Low pop (few hundreds)

→ Mixed Econ

• Hunting/Males

• Gathering/Females

→ Roles

• Council govt (elders)

→ Dialect

• Diverse

Columban Exchange

→ 1492 - 1800

→ Exchange of goods, people, and disease

• New World → Old World

- Plants (New world)

• Corn

• Tomato

• Squash

• Beans

• Potato

• Thanksgiving foods

- Old World

• Domestic animals

• Sugar

• Rice

• Citrus

• Smallpox

West Africa

→ Triangular Trade

- Slave labor force

→ 1650 - 1830

• More Africans migrate to New World than Europeans