The city of Cahokia

Six thousand years ago American Indian groups got Food by hunting, fishing, and gathering the fruit of wild plants. In time, a few groups began growing some food themselves. American Indians planted and harvested corn, beans and squash.

Cahokia is located in the southern Illinois. It is few miles from the city of St Louis Missouri. All around Cahokia are mounds, or hills, that people made American Indians built mounds by piling up thousands of basket loads of dirt.

In the late 1960s archeologist digging at Cahokia found a grave in the grave were the bones of a man, the bones rested on piles of beads made of Ocean shells. Nearby were two rolled sheets of copper and two bushels of Mica.

Mica is a material that can easily be seen through. People made it into ornaments

3er Bimester

Ø Natural Vegetation Regions

Ø American Indians

v The First Americans

v The City of Cahokia

v The Cheyenne

v Algonkians of The Coastal Plain

Ø European Exploration of America

v The Vikings

v Columbus: Admiral of The Ocean Sea

Ø Settlement

v The Spanish Colonies

v French, Dutch, and Swedish Colonies

v Jamestown

v The general Assembly of Virginia

The region whose eastern edges touch the coastal plain in many places is called the Appalachian Highlands. It has high hills and low, rounded mountains, they touch the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the north.

To the South, they form a barrier that separates the Coastal Plain form a third region called Eastern Plains. It is made up of flat lands or gently rolling hills.

The Great Plains Region, to the west of the Eastern Plains, Streches from the Canadian Border to the Mexican Border.

The Coastal Plains, the Eastern Plains and the Great Plains form one of the largest Streches of flat land in the world.

AMEREICAN INDIANS

The first Americans probably came to North America more the 200,000 years ago. We know few certain facts about that time. But we can guess that they must have had a hard life. The first Americans probably lived in small groups. The members of the groups may have depended on each other to get things they needed: Food, clothes, shelter, love and safety.

The first Americans: Twenty thousand years ago, the place we call the United States looked different from the way it looks today:

Thick forest stood in some places where there are now deserts.

Huge lakes covered some spots where there are now grass-covered plains

A giant sheet of ice, called glacier, spread across much of the country we now call Canada.

Twenty thousand years ago, large numbers of animals looked just as they do today. But other animals did not. A kind of beaver lived then that was a big as a bear. Giant mammoth hs, animals that looked something like the elephants of today, roamed the American plains.

There was even an American camel. It no longer lives anywhere on the earth.

Historians: Think the fisrt America come to North America from Siberia, an area in Asia, these men, woman, and children were probably hunters following the tracks of animals.

Today animals and people cannot simply walk on land from Siberia to North America. A narrow ribbon of water called the Bering Strait separates the two continents. But more than 20.000 years ago, some historians say the waters of Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea were lower than they are now.

A piece of land stood above the water like a bridge. Animals crossed freely from Asia to North America on this land bridge. Wherever the animals went, the hunters followed closely behind. The animals roamed south out of Alaska. They came through a narrow, ice-free strip of Canada into the Great Plains Region of what is now the United States.

The Air of the American Great plains was wormer that of Alaska or Canada. Many animals liked to eat the plentiful grass of the Great Plains, so, they stopped their roaming. Many of the hunters decided to stay also.

Over the years, some of the hunters of the Great plains went west to live in the western plateau and the pacific mountain regions. Others went to live in the woodlands of the coastal and eastern plains and the Appalachian highlands.

The climate and natural vegetation changed.

By about 6.000 years ago the region we know today came about. Some kinds of animals like the mammoths, the giant beavers ant the north American camel could not adopted to this changed. They died up.

The hunters, could adopt. One reason was because the depended on groups to help them get their needs. The groups that adapted to the changes in North America were the people the Europeans met and called INDIANS