TOPIC 1.2
Native American Societies Before
European Contact
THEMATIC FOCUS Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Geographic and environmental factors, including competition over and debates about natural resources, shape the development of America and foster regional diversity. The development of America impacts the environment and reshapes geography, which leads to debates about environmental and geographic issues.
Learning Objective B
Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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. Required Course Content.
Geographic and environmental factors, including competition over and debates about natural resources, shape the development of America and foster regional diversity. The development of America impacts the environment and reshapes geography, which leads to debates about environmental and geographic issues.
Learning Objective B
Explain how and why various native populations in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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. Required Course Content.
