The Christian Crusaders of Middle Ages fought in Palestine to regain the Holy Land from Muslims. The only record is found in Viking sagas or songs. However, these men left America and left no written record and therefore didn’t get the credit.
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They landed in “ Newfoundland” or “Vinland” (due to all of the vines). The 1st Europeans to come to America were the Norse (Vikings from Norway).Īround 1,000 A.D., the Vikings landed, led by Erik the Red and Leif Erikson. Indians had little or no concept or interest in money. (Europeans believed nature and land was given to man by God in Genesis to be subdued and put to use). (Europeans were Christian and monotheistic) Indians felt nature was mixed with many spirits. Native Americans felt no man owned the land, the tribe did.
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Native Americans had a very different view of things as compared to Europeans. Usually, Indians were scattered and separated (and thus weak). They were matrilineal as authority and possessions passed down through the female line.Įach tribe kept their independence, but met occasionally to discuss matters of common interest, like war/defense. The Iroquois Confederation was a group of 5 tribes in New York state. Hiawatha was the legendary leader of the group.This group likely had the best (most diverse) diet of all North American Indians and is typified by the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw (South) and Iroquois (North). Louis today, held 40,000 people.Įastern Indians grew corn, beans, and squash in “three sister” farming…Ĭorn grew in a stalk providing a trellis for beans, beans grew up the stalk, squash’s broad leaves kept the sun off the ground and thus kept the moisture in the soil. These people built huge ceremonial and burial mounds and were located in the Ohio Valley.Ĭahokia, near East St. They had elaborate irrigation systems to draw water away from rivers to grown corn. Pueblos are villages of cubicle shaped adobe houses, stacked one on top the other and often beneath cliffs. They lived in adobe houses (dried mud) and pueblos (“villages” in Spanish). The Pueblos were the 1st American corn growers. This fact gave rise to towns and then cities.Ĭorn arrived in the present day U.S. Then, people didn’t have to be hunter-gatherers, they could settle down and be farmers. Aztecs – Mexico, with step pyramids and huge sacrifices of conquered peoples.ĭevelopment of corn or “maize” around 5,000 B.C.Mayas – Yucatan Peninsula, with their step pyramids.Incas – Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire.Those groups that traversed the land bridge spread across North, Central, and South America.Ĭountless tribes emerged with an estimated 2,000 languages. The Land Bridge is suggested as occurring an estimated 35,000 years ago. People were said to have walked across the “bridge” before the sea level rose and sealed it off and thus populated the Americas.
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The theory holds that a “ Land Bridge” emerged linking Asia & North America across what’s today the Bering Sea. The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America and scoured the present day American Midwest.Īs the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over North America. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. The continents then spread out as drifting islands. The theory of “ Pangaea” exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin the era of accurately recorded history on the continent. All rights reserved.Recorded history began 6,000 years ago.