Native American Societies BEFORE 1492 [APUSH Unit 1 Topic 2] 1.2

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In this video Heimler brings you on a tour of the Americas before the Europeans showed up. On these continents, many different cultures lived in many different ways, mainly depending on their environment.

Some congregated in vast city-based empires like the Mayans, the Incans, and the Aztecs. Others were settled farmers. Still others were hunters and gatherers. And yet STILL others organized themselves into fishing villages near oceanic coasts.

They grew maize, engaged in vast trading networks, had complex governmental systems, and made use of agricultural technology like irrigation.

The point is, before the Europeans arrived, native Americans were not just a single kind of people: they were complicated and complex as societies.

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This video corresponds to the AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description (CED) for Unit 1 Topic 2, and the following Key Concepts are addressed:

KC-1.1.I.A
The spread of maize cultivation from present day Mexico northward into the present-day
American Southwest and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies.

KC-1.1.I.B
Societies responded to the aridity of the Great Basin and the grasslands of the western Great
Plains by developing largely mobile lifestyles.

KC-1.1.I.C
In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard, some societies developed mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.

KC-1.1.I.D
Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supported by the vast resources of the ocean.