Social Studies

        

Social Studies Help

        For homework this week we had to pages 1-9 in our Social Studies Packet and this is for people who may have not understood.(Note: this is for Tavares Elementary Students of  Stubbs, Rodriguez, and Garback)

      People Arrive in the Americas

         It is believed that people, Native Americans, first arrived in North and South America by boat and foot. After they arrived people already had to face a major problem. A long time ago it was much colder than now(especially since we live in Florida xD) ,so the Native Americans migrated to warmer places across North America to find food. Soon they tracked animals to Central America and South America. As a result, Most of the areas in the Americas became filled.

Migrate-travel

   Learning to Use Land

           Settling the Americas wasn't as easy and efficient as it seems. It took thousand of years! As they came to this new land, the Native Americans faced many new challenges. For example, high mountains, thick forests, and large bodies of water could cause many problems. But, they found many ways to adapt. This shaped their structures, cultures, and language. Most historians believe, at first, were hunter-gatherers. They typically traveled to find food from plants and hunt animal. Then around ten-thousand years ago agriculture became the next big step. Native Americans planted corn, beans, sweet potatoes, and other crops. Agriculture made it so people could stay in one place year round. Soon people made rules and government forming civilizations.

Mayans and Aztecs

       Around four-thousand in Central America the Mayans, ,\ rose and really reached it's peak between three-hundred and nine-hundred A.D. The Mayas made systems for math and writing. They created a chart that recorded the "movements" of the sun. However, by one-thousand two hundred A.D. Soon the Aztecs rose. The Aztecs are also known as the Mexica (meh SHEE kah). The prized city of the Aztecs was Tenochtitlan (te nahk TEE tlahn). It is located where, now, Mexico City stands. The Aztecs were really good at farming. They constructed a system to move water to dry land. This is called irrigation.  

Other Native American Cultures

         Elsewhere, many other Native American Tribes merged. For example, the Inuit (in OOT) lived in a cold place making it hard to survive. But, they managed by making small canoes and built their homes out of blocks of ice. In the south, the Mound Builders developed a civilization about three thousand years ago. Their name come from, you guessed, from their large earthen structures. And finally, the Ancient Puebloan or Anasazi. They appeared about two- thousand years ago. They were farmers that used irrigation., They were also skillful builders as their buildings were called mesas. They were typically built on hills until about one-thousand one hundred A.D. when they began to build their houses under the shelter of cliffs like Mesa Verde.

  Conclusion

This was for my classmates who were struggling with this. Post any further questions below.(Make a Blogger Profile).