Americas before the arrival of Europeans
I can describe what North America was like before the arrival of Europeans.
Americas before the arrival of Europeans
I can describe what North America was like before the arrival of Europeans.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Indigenous peoples of North America were divided into different groups from small families to large empires
- Some North American tribes would be both farmers and hunter-gatherers like the Iroquois tribe
- Some well-known empires of North America included the Inuits in the North and Mayans and Aztecs in the South
- European travellers to North America started from the 900s with the Viking and Greenland explorers
Common misconception
All Native American were the same and part of a single society
There was a wide range of indigenous nations in the Americas, with many differences between their sizes, social structure and cultures
Keywords
Indigenous - indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a specific area
Native Americans - Native Americans are members of any of the societies who originally inhabited North and South America and the Caribbean Islands
Empire - an empire is a group of countries or provinces ruled from the centre by a person or group of people
Nation - a nation is a community of people linked together by shared language, territory, ethnicity, or culture
Hunter-gatherers - hunter-gatherers are people who live off hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food
Content guidance
- Contains conflict or violence.
Supervision
Adult supervision suggested.
Licence
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