1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact

Began migrating 25,000 years ago, America pre-contact: 37-100 million people

• Present-day U.S.: 4-7 million

8000-2000 BCE:

Horticulture: a form of agriculture in which people work small plots of land with simple tools

• Maize (corn)

Native Americans developed “Three Sisters”: corn, beans, squash farmed together