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CHAPTER 1: THREE OLD WORLDS CREATE A NEW, 1492-1600

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Introduction
Know: Old World, New World

Are the terms old world and new world biased?

Old World :
Europeans fleeing poverty & religious persecution.

New World:
North America 1. What conditions existed in what is today the United States that made it "fertile ground" for a great nation?
Abundant natural resources
Prior inhabitance & cultivation of the land by the Native Americans

The Shaping of North America

Know:

Great Basin: Lake Bonneville covering most of Idaho & Utah today-it drained into the Pacific- drained the west through the Snake River & Columbia River system. Lake Bonneville’s beaches are visible 1,000 ft. up of the floor of the Great Basin. Salt Lake lost its outlet and evaporation caused it to become saline.

Appalachian Mountains: Formed before continental separation. 350 million yrs. Ago.

Tidewater Region: Caused by many river valleys. Slope upward to the Appalachians.

Rocky Mountains: 135-25 million yrs. ago after continental separation.

Great Lakes: weight of the ice caused depressions in the Canadian Shield. This scoured away the topsoil

Missouri Mississippi-Ohio River System: Drained the level of the Great Lakes.

2. Speculate how at least one geographic feature affected the development of the United States.

• Select a geographic region, explain how the geographic feature affected the development of the United States in each of the following time periods:

1500-1763 1800-1900 1900-2008

The First Discoverers of America
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Land Bridge: 35,000 yrs ago the oceans congealed causing the sea level to drop, and exposing the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Nomad crossed the land bridge. About 10,000 years ago, as the Ice Age ended, sea levels began to rise and the land bridge was covered with water once again.

3. "Before the arrival of
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