EEG+Chapter+1

o 225 million years ago: Pangaea, a massive land mass that was a jigsaw of what the world is today, was present. o Continents began to move, and roughly 10 million years ago, the Americas had taken shape. o 2 million to 10 thousand years ago: glaciers shape the geography to what it is today. o 35 thousand years ago: people arrived  § Few by boat  § Most by land  · Bering Land Bridge  · Due to the Ice Age, the water level had lowered to reveal this. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bering Land Bridge flooded 10 thousand years ago. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Migration south ward found maize (corn) and became a staple for survival in 5000 B.C., reached the Southwest by 1200 B.C., and finally arrived at the Atlantic by 1000 A.D. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Earliest known arrivals: Scandinavians (1000 B.C.) <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Recorded History began roughly in 4000 B.C. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Marco Polo stimulated the adventurous spirit of Europe with his stories of riches (1295). <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Printing press invented in 1450 to spread knowledge <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Portuguese found a way around Africa (1488). <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Spain unites under Ferdinand and Isabella to look for a route west to the “Indies” <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Christopher Columbus finds the Americas, but he thought they were the “Indies” and misnames the natives Indians (October 12, 1492) <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Within 50 years of Columbus’s find, Spanish conquistadores have explored much of what are today the Caribbean, Mexico, and Southwestern USA. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Spanish moved well north of their original find and placed missions in California, Texas, and Florida. <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Unlike the English, the Spanish integrated their culture with the Native Americans rather than shunning and “reforming” them.