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By Daniel Phillips and Luke Griffin  Social Studies  Liz Thornton  2nd Semester

 Welcome to the History page. This is where you will study all of the necessary materials for Historytoc  From the Kennewick Man the the Voyage of Columbus.

Ch. 1
 Know that history has to do with things that happened in the past.  History is full of stories.  We read about mistakes people made in the past.  The constitution was a major event in history

Ch. 2
 You should be able to explain tools, ancient animals, and locations.  Examples of tools are spearheads, and axes. They were used to hunting and cooking.  Mammoths were living in the ice age and stone age.  You should be able to tell where things happened on a map and in words. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The discovery of fire was also very important.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 3
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> You should be able to explain Beringia and what happened to it and what it was used for. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> During the ice age there was a land/ice bridge called Beringia. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Some scientists believe that people traveled across Beringia to get to North America. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> After the ice age started to go away, Beringia started to wash and melt away. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Today the Bering strait is where Beringia used to be.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 4
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Indians became Indians when Columbus traveled to the New World <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He gave them the name Indians when he thought he had reached India <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They never made good use of the wheel. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were excellent farmers. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were easily killed by diseases.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 5
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The people believed to have crossed Beringia are today know as the Inuit people. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They live in Northern Canada, and Alaska. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They hunt for narwhales and other fish that live up there. Thereat theft from the animals. It it called muktuk <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They wear furry clothed that they get from animals that they kill. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They build igloos for instant shelter to get out of bad weather. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> With 2 Inuit people, you could build an igloo in about 30 minutes. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They used canoes to get from place to place.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 6
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> You should be able to explain what the Cliff Dwellers (Anasazi) did, how they survived, where they were, and what happened to them. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The Cliff Dwellers lived in the four corners reigion of the United States. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They survived on mostly corn, but also other crops. They relied on dry farming for their crops. You should be able to explain what dry farming is. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They lived on cliffs. They lived in buildings like apartment complexes. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> There was a drought that forced them to move further south.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 7
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> You should be able to explain alot of the different tribes that the Northwest Indians consisted of, what they did in their free time, and other important details. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The Northwest Indians consisted of the Kwakiulti, Tsimshian, Tlingit, Nootka, Chinook, Makah, Hadia, Okanagon, Spokane, Quinault, Kalapuya, Kalispel, and Shuswap. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They held potlatches where the rickest people gave away things that they had. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Totem poles had a great role in this society. If you had one, you were considered a rich, and powerful man. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They went out to sea to hunt in giant canoes.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">﻿Ch. 8
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Native American Tribes spoke up to 250 languages. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">They had plank canoes that held lots of people <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">They even had saunas known then as health clubs <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">They ate the cactus and used its juice. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Appalachian mountains were a place that lots of Native Americans lived.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 9
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The Plain Indians were not at all plain <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were nomadic and lived in Teepees. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They lived in the Great Plains. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They hunted buffalo and used every part of them <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> After Columbus came, they had horses and could hunt the buffalo in horseback. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They also farmed.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 10
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The mound builders built mounds to have ceremonies, to bury people, and just for fun. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They lived along the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Missouri river. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> One of the most famous mounds is the serpent mound in Serpent Mound, Ohio <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were great traders. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> There were 2 tribes, the Cahokia and the Adena. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They disappeared really fast. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> No one knows why for sure.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 11
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The eastern woodlands were a giant group of Native Americans <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were located in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They used a technique called slash-and-burn farming <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They lived in wigwams. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Wigwams are thatched roof with strong reeds. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They spoke Algonqian.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 12
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The Iroquois people lived in long-houses that could hold 20 families. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The chiefs were called sachems. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> The Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Senaca tribes formed the Iroquois confederacy. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They were against the Eastern Woodlands. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> There were 3 people, Deganwidah, Hiawatha, and Tadodaho who went around to tribes talking against cannibalistic ways.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 13
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Viking means sea raider or pirate <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They first lived in Scandinavia then traveled to Ireland, then Greenland then Northern America, Canada, and Newfoundland. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> There were 2 important people called Leaf Ericsson and Erik the Red. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> They all traveled to different places and exploreed the new worlds.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 15-18
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> Christopher Columbus was a little boy in Spain when he read about marco plo and his journey across the atlantic ocean. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He grew up in a wealthy family, so he was very privilaged. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He had all these ideas about how to get acrorss the Atlantic <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> When he was older he approached the king and queen with an idea about going to a "new world." <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He had to pester the king and queen before they would fund the trip. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> When to hispanola he destroyed the environment. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He ruined the croplands and he killed millions of innocent people. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He created a triangle slave trade. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;"> He did lots of bad things.

The Elizabethan Age (1585-1625)
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 170%;">The Elizabethan Age was the beginning of the Renaissance which means "rebirth." This time period is when people, towns, and economies started flourishing. Inventions were being invented that were revolutionary. One of those inventions were the printing press. It was invented in the 1500s by Johannes Gutenberg. Prople created new religions. Queen Elizabeth came into reign when her father Henry Tudor the 8th married and could not produce a boy. He divorced his wife by making a new church. After he died, Mary, his eldest daughter, took reign and reformed everyone back to catholic. If they did not reform back, they would be killed. Thats why people called her Bloody Mary. Elizabeth took the throne after Mary died. Under Elizabeth's rule, england became a world power, taxes were reduced, and education and art was encouraged.

Vocabulary
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Stampede - a wild rush of animal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Inuit - Live by fish and hunting <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Caribou - snow shoveler <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Taiga - subartic land forested with pine, spruce, and aspen <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Anthropology - the study of humans being everywhere and throughtout time <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Glaciers - blankets of ice <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Nomadic - someone who does not have a steady home and is in search if shelter and food <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Tundra - dry frozen land in the artic region <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Kayak - sleek,light weight boats that allow one to maneuver easily through the water <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">The Bering Strait - an 18 mile body of water that connects Asia to North America <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Totem pole - painted poles that are a symbol of a families power and rank <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Umiak - large boats used for whaling <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">The Great Law of Peace - The constitution o the Iroqouis people <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Algonquian - language spoken by Inuit people <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Stinkards - slaves

Geographical Locations
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Inuit- Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Plains- The Rocky mountains to the Appalacian mountains <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Anasazi-The four corners <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Iroquois- Upstate New York <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Mound Builders- Cincinnati, Ohio

Houses

 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Inuit-igloo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Plains-teepee
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Anasazi- cliff dwellings
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Iroquois-longhouses
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Eastern Woodlanders- wigwam

Questions

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;">The earliest humans classified by anthropologist are mongoloids, caucasoids , negroids.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;">The four coners are: New mexico, colorado, arizona, utah
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;"> ﻿ Nasazi in Navajo means "ancient enemy"
 * 4) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;"> The three plant sisters:corn, beans, sqaush
 * 5) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;">long houses is where the Iroqouis lived in. They could house about 20 families and was half the size of a football fields.
 * 6) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;"> The Iroquois confederacy was a democratic government.
 * 7) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 150%;"> Potlatches mainly decide what the families ranking is.

media type="custom" key="9496626"<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> This is a good video about inuit food.

media type="custom" key="9496884"<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> Beastmode Video on the Vikings