Section 3: Cultures of North America

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Section 3 Cultures of North America

• The Mound Builders
• There were many groups that built mounds in North
  America
• They lived at various times from about 1000BC to
  1600s
• They lived in the Eastern Woodlands

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• Mounds of Cahokia
• Cahokia was a great city in what is now Illinois
• Buildings of the city were built on mounds
• Some were shaped like flat top pyramids
• Temples for worship stood on top of these mounds
• The largest mound in Cahokia has a base bigger
  than the Great Pyramid in Egypt
• The mounds are man made
• Thousands of workers built them by moving baskets
  of dirt and only had tools of wood, stone, and
  shells

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• The Great Serpent Mound
• Located in present day Ohio
• Used for a cemetery
• When seen from above the mounds in Ohio represent
  animals
• They were also a place to hold precious
  belongings of the Mound Builder people
• Jewelry made of shell and copper, clay statues
  and other works of art
• Material of the possessions is not locally found

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• People of the Southwest
• The environment affected the way these people
  lived and they saw it as apart of who they are as
  people

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• The Anasazi the ancient ones
• One of the 1st cultures to develop in the SW
• Moved into the area from the far North
• They wandered the area of the Colorado Plateau
• They finally settled and began to grow corn,
  beans, squash, and other vegetables
• They built a complicated system of canals to
  bring water to their crops
• They also wove cotton into cloth and made pottery
  and baskets

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• Living areas
• At first they lived in pit houses but later they
  build villages into the sides of cliffs
• These are called pueblos and they are similar to
  apartments today
• The pueblo made it easier to protect their homes

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• The Pueblo people
• Anasazi customs lived on in the Pueblo people
• They used the same pueblos to live and they were
  farmers
• Their crafts included weaving, basket making and
  pottery making

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• Religion
• They believed in many spirits and wanted to
  please them
• The spirits controlled the rain
• Men would gather in an underground room called a
  Kiva to ask the spirits for rain
• They appealed to the Kachinas or cloud spirits to
  send rain