©SOPHIABENNETT
2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/11/24 [Course title]
, ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM
APUSH AMSCO Chapter 1 Summary &
Notes Study Guide with Complete
Solutions
How Native Americans got to the Americas - Answer✔️✔️-*migrants from Asia crossed
a land bridge that once connect Siberia and Alaska in Bering Sea,
migrated south from Arctic Circle to South America
3 highly developed civilizations - Answer✔️✔️-Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Mayan Civilization (300-800 AD) - Answer✔️✔️-*remarkable cities in rain forests of
Yucatan Peninsula (present-day Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico)
*cultivated corn/maize
Aztec Empire - Answer✔️✔️-*powerful empire in central Mexico
*Capital in Tenochtitlan
*population ~200k
*planted corn/maize
(200 yrs after decline of Mayan Empire)
Inca Empire - Answer✔️✔️-*Peru/Andes Mnt (South America)
*cultivated da potato
similarities between Mayas, Incas, Aztecs - Answer✔️✔️-*highly organized (and large)
societies
*extensive trade
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*created accurate & scientific calendars
*planted crops
the significant difference between Central/South American and North American Native
America Tribes - Answer✔️✔️-North American Native Americans were smaller/separate
tribes (as opposed to a big empire),
*less sophisticated
Similarities between Central/South American and North American Tribes - Answer✔️✔️-
established farming systems, language
similarities between North American native cultures - Answer✔️✔️-*semi-permanent
settlements in small groups
*men: made tools, hunted game
*women: gathered plants/nuts or grew crops like corn/maize, beans, tobacco
*animism
language of Native Americans - Answer✔️✔️-very diverse, more than 20 language
families & 400 distinct languages
*larges are Algoquian of Northeast, Siouan in Great Plains, Athabaskan in Southwest
Relationship between resource availability and cultural lifestyle (in general) -
Answer✔️✔️-*great concentration of resources also created rigidly stratified class
structures throughout the West
*In areas with sparse natural resources, groups were more nomadic and less connected
to others.
Southwest Settlements (present day New Mexico & Arizona) - Answer✔️✔️-*groups like
Hokokam, Anasazi, Pueblos
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2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/11/24 [Course title]
, ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM
APUSH AMSCO Chapter 1 Summary &
Notes Study Guide with Complete
Solutions
How Native Americans got to the Americas - Answer✔️✔️-*migrants from Asia crossed
a land bridge that once connect Siberia and Alaska in Bering Sea,
migrated south from Arctic Circle to South America
3 highly developed civilizations - Answer✔️✔️-Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Mayan Civilization (300-800 AD) - Answer✔️✔️-*remarkable cities in rain forests of
Yucatan Peninsula (present-day Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico)
*cultivated corn/maize
Aztec Empire - Answer✔️✔️-*powerful empire in central Mexico
*Capital in Tenochtitlan
*population ~200k
*planted corn/maize
(200 yrs after decline of Mayan Empire)
Inca Empire - Answer✔️✔️-*Peru/Andes Mnt (South America)
*cultivated da potato
similarities between Mayas, Incas, Aztecs - Answer✔️✔️-*highly organized (and large)
societies
*extensive trade
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*created accurate & scientific calendars
*planted crops
the significant difference between Central/South American and North American Native
America Tribes - Answer✔️✔️-North American Native Americans were smaller/separate
tribes (as opposed to a big empire),
*less sophisticated
Similarities between Central/South American and North American Tribes - Answer✔️✔️-
established farming systems, language
similarities between North American native cultures - Answer✔️✔️-*semi-permanent
settlements in small groups
*men: made tools, hunted game
*women: gathered plants/nuts or grew crops like corn/maize, beans, tobacco
*animism
language of Native Americans - Answer✔️✔️-very diverse, more than 20 language
families & 400 distinct languages
*larges are Algoquian of Northeast, Siouan in Great Plains, Athabaskan in Southwest
Relationship between resource availability and cultural lifestyle (in general) -
Answer✔️✔️-*great concentration of resources also created rigidly stratified class
structures throughout the West
*In areas with sparse natural resources, groups were more nomadic and less connected
to others.
Southwest Settlements (present day New Mexico & Arizona) - Answer✔️✔️-*groups like
Hokokam, Anasazi, Pueblos
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