AP History Chapter one

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings


Planetary Perspectives
• 6000 years ago (I min ago in geological time) Western world began
• 500 years ago European explores stumbled on American continents. (altered both old/new Africa/Asia)
• United States was then born leaving imprints upon rest of world. Enormous economic output gave power. Achievements in arts, science and technology shaped the world and lives.
• American Republic started from a vast and virgin continent. Native people scattered. Opportunity should never come again. No other huge fertile uninhabited areas left.
























The Shaping of North America

• Slowly forming planet earth was once dry land. Chunks of terrain drifted away. Opening Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Created landmasses Eurasia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and the Americas.
• Appalachians came when earth’s crust thrust mountains Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Coast Range...