Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Powerpoints

Today in class we started to share our power points we made in class the other day. I learned about many tribes that came to the United States. Here are my notes from class today.
Native Americans:
~Found DNA that was related to native americans/asian heritage.
~dated back to 14,300 years ago.
~the people who migrated were called indo-europeans.
~The native americans that came over were from russia, europe, asia and many other places.
~They crossed over a land bridge called the Beringian strait.
~The native americans were the first ones to america.
~They are known to be Indegenous.
~they did not fight for the land, because it was untouched, leaving it for them to just take over.
~They were not sent to find the land, they just moved as part of their culture. It was sort of an accident they even found america in the first place.
~Some Native Americans are still in the United States today.
~The native americans took care of their land because the lived off of it.

Vikings:
~The vikings came to america around 1,000 AD
~They first landed on Greenland apon migrating over.
~They saw hills and forest which was america, because they got lost.
~Traveled by boat.
~Eriksson traveled to Norway to get converted into Christianity.
~The vikings did not see the need or value to conquer america.
~they were not sent by anyone, the came on their own, accidental as well.
~Stayed in the americas for about 350 years.
~Vikings were respectful of their land.
~Pillaged others land with no regrets.

No comments:

Post a Comment