Aim: How diverse is the geography of Latin America?

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• Aim How diverse is the geography of the
  Americas?
• Do Now Imagine if you were an ancient American
  hunter. You have just killed a Giant Mammoth
  (Like Manny from Ice Age), what items would you
  make from the animal you just killed.
• HW- Camping handout

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Wooly Mammoth
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The Land Bridge Beringia

• The American continent spans two hemispheres.
• From the Arctic Circle in the north to Antarctica
  in the south.
• These continents are isolated from the other
  continents by vast oceans.

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Setting the Stage

• The civilizations in America followed the same
  patterns as civilizations in other parts of the
  world.
• First they were hunter-gathers. Then they
  developed farming.
• This led to the first civilizations in the
  Americas

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North and South
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South America
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They did what.?

• During the Ice Age, there was a land bridge
  between Asia and North America.
• The land bridge is known as Beringia.
• People migrated from Asia to North America by
  walking across Beringia.

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Dammits mad brick! Lets Bounce!
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The genes are the same?
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Primary Source

• What a wild world it was!! To see it properly, we
  must board a time machine and travel back into
  the Ice Age. The northern half of North America
  was vanished, buried beneath ice sheets two miles
  thick. Stretching south to Kentucky, they buckle
  the earths crust with their weight Animals grow
  oversize.. Elephant-eating jaguars stand tall as
  lions, beavers grow as big as bears, South
  American sloths as tall as giraffes. With aortic
  cold pushing so far southward, walrus bask on
  Virginia beaches and musk-oxen graze from
  Maryland to California.
• Thomas Canby The Search for the first American
• What might account for the abundance of animal
  life that Canby describes?

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The Effects of Agriculture
Before Agriculture After Agriculture
People hunted and gathered food. More reliable food source
Families migrated in search of animals and food. Families settled down and built communities
Humans spent a lot of time looking for food. Complex societies developed.
How did life change after the development of agriculture? How might the establishment of agriculture have helped humans to develop new skills and interests?
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Going Camping.

• Imagine you are an ancient American.it is mad
  brick in North America. You and your family
  decide its time to move south. For better
  weather and food. You will be traveling for at
  least 3 months. What would you bring with you on
  the journey.
• Remember you do not have a car. You will have to
  carry all your belongings. You may be able to
  use a sled pulled by dogs but that is it.
• What do you take with you. Put the things that
  are most important at the top of your list.