Pre-Columbian Native Pre-Columbian Native AmericansAmericans

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Mayas

• Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Mexico

• Built Temples & Pyramids

• Had their own form of hand writing

• Calendars

• Corn (Maize) staple food for the world

Incas

• Peru

• Palaces surrounded by high walls

• Road system connecting mountain towns

• To farmed steep land by building terraces

• Used stone aqueducts to irrigate their crops

• Gave us the potato and tomato

Aztecs

• Central Mexico

• War like people

• Good architects

• Built grand temples and pyramids (like the Mayas

• Capital was Mexico City

• Made jewelry out of gold

North American Indians

• Lived in wandering tribes and led simple lives

• Hunters and gatherers of wild food• Countless tribes with hundreds of languages• Some worked with gold• Still in stone age• Textiles of fancy design while others were

plain

North American Indians (cont)

• Meat depended on the place (mainly deer and buffalo)

• crops of corn, beans, and etc

• Found food in the woods (nuts, berries, mushrooms

• Raised and smoked tobacco

Anasazi or Pueblo Indians

• Advance Indians of N. America (Arizona, New Mexico

• Settled in one place

• Farmers

• Built pueblos

• Made pottery, textiles, baskets

Eastern Woodlands

• Hunters and gatherers

• Also farmers

• 5 tribes of Huron-Iroquois speaking people formed the Iroquois Leage (Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida , Onondaga, Cayuga)

• Planned defense