Pueblo people
desert southwest - multistory stone houses with hunderds of rooms
Chinook people
pacific Northwest - subsisted on hunting and foraging
nomadic plains tribes
the great plains - hunting/foraging
Iroquois and Algonquian
small tribes with permanent agriculture encountered Europeans first
Impact of corn
enabled stable economies and organized societies; advancements in irrigation and other agri practices
1492
Columbus arrived in the New World when Europe had the resources to establish colonies. Began Columbian Exchange
encomienda system