AMERIDIANS
1. Pueblo Indians: Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico, Arizona, southwest Colorado
     a. Corn planting, elaborate irrigation systems, multi-storied and terraced dwellings
     b. Some Pueblo villages are still among the oldest in North America

2. Mound Builder civilizations in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys
     a. Mississippian culture (e.g. Cahokia near E. St. Louis, home to as many as 40,000 people (c. 1000-1700 CE)
          · Central mound, 100 ft. high, world’s largest earthen work.
          · Largest city north of Mexico
     b. Iron tools, wore woven fabrics, buried dead in collective graves
     c. Trade spanned from Appalachians to Rockies; Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico.

3. Atlantic seaboard tribes began growing maize, beans, & squash (c.1000 CE)
     a. Creeks practiced democratic style government
     b. Choctaw and Cherokee were also prominent

4. Iroquois in eastern woodlands built a strong military confederacy (led by Hiawatha, late 16th c.)
     a. Mohawk Valley of what is today New York State
     b. Consisted of Five Nations: Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and the Senecas.
     c. The "longhouse" was the foundation of Iroquois culture: 8 to 200 ft in length.