Early American Civilizations
Author | : Catherine S. Whittington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617001338 |
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Author | : Catherine S. Whittington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617001338 |
Author | : Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640190007 |
Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.
Author | : Frank Joseph |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009-12-21 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591439817 |
The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus’s arrival in North America offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds • Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our modern age • Shows that North America’s first civilization, the Adena, was sparked by ancient Kelts from Western Europe and explores links between Hopewell Mound Builders and prehistoric Japanese seafarers Before Rome ruled the Classical World, gleaming stone pyramids stood amid smoking iron foundries from North America’s Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River. On its east bank, across from today’s St. Louis, Missouri, flourished a walled city more populous than London was one thousand years ago, with a pyramid larger--at its base--than Egypt’s Great Pyramid. During the 12th century, hydraulic engineers laid out a massive irrigation network spanning the American Southwest that, if laid end to end, would stretch from Phoenix, Arizona, to the Canadian border. On a scale to match, they built a five-mile-wide dam from ten million cubic yards of rock. While Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, a metropolis of weirdly shaped, multistory superstructures, precisely aligned to the sun and moon, sprawled across the New Mexico Desert. Who was responsible for such colossal achievements? Where did their mysterious builders come from, and what became of them? These are some of the questions investigated by Frank Joseph in his examination of ancient influences at work on our continent. He reveals that modern civilization is not the first to arise in North America but was preceded instead by four high cultures that rose and fell over the past three thousand years: the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi-Hohokam. How they achieved greatness and why they vanished so completely are the intriguing enigmas explored by this unconventional prehistory of our country, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America.
Author | : Herbert Joseph Spinden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger G. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781451658750 |
Robert Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, analyzes the discovery of North America and the loss of ancient civilization, from the cities, roads, and commerce of the past as the nation evolved into present day. In Hidden Cities, Robert Kennedy sets out on the bold quest of recovering the rich heritage of the North American peoples through a reimagination of the true relations of their modern-day successors and neighbors. From the Spanish and French explorers that discovered the land that would one day make up the United States to present day in the country, very few Euro-Americans have paid attention to the evidence and meaning of the nation’s heritage. As Kennedy shows the magnificence of the mound-building cultures through the sometimes prejudiced eyes of the founding generation, he reveals the astounding history of the North American continent in a way that sheds important light on the credit Native American predecessors deserve but many refuse to give.
Author | : Friedrich Katz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Antony Mason |
Publisher | : BBC Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In ancient North and South America extraordinary civilizations rose, flourished, and fell. The Mayan pyramids and the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru and Teotihuacan in Mexico remain a testament to these cultures. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas tells this remarkable story-beginning when humans first ventured from Asia to Alaska more than 13,000 years ago and ending with the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century. The book traces the migration of people across North and South America, and investigates the impressive artistic and architectural achievements that followed. Civilizations emerged with well-established religions and economies, proven agricultural methods and trade routes, and craftsmen capable of producing gold, silver, and pottery artifacts of sublime beauty. By 500 BC sophisticated societies had developed as far south as Peru and by AD 500 these cultures, including the Maya of modern Mexico and Guatemala, had reached an age of maturity. The late fourteenth century saw the rise of the great imperial powers of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in the Andes -- both highly organized societies with efficient bureaucracies, capable of casting the net of imperial rule over huge swathes of territory. In the end, however, the civilizations of the Americas faced a challenge different from any they had met before: the arrival of European colonists, starting with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. Much was swept away in the often brutal encounters that followed. Yet much also survived -- ancient crafts and customs and the remains of engineering and architectural marvels, all speaking unforgettably of these cultures' astonishing skills and organization.
Author | : P. Scott Corbett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781738998432 |
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author | : Sonia G. Benson |
Publisher | : UXL |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780787676780 |
Describes the story of the development of early American civilizations and includes a collection of twenty-three biographies and primary sources from the earliest societies to the Spanish conquest.
Author | : Jackie Maloy |
Publisher | : C. Press/F. Watts Trade |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780531241103 |
Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.