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The Great Plains

Published on Dec 09, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Great Plains

BY: Cole Stewart and Ben Goslin

GEOGRAPHY

  • It is very windy and has rapid changes in Temperature
  • It is flat with short grass prairies
  • There are no natural bariers

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CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS

  • There was unpredictable precipitation with long periods of drout
  • Early settelers were known as "Sodbusters"
  • It sometimes took 20 animals pulling 1 plow to break the sod

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PRE-COLUMBIAN LIFESTYLE

  • Hunted large mamals to extinction
  • simple tools

POST-COLOMBIAN LIFESTYLE

  • Spanish people reintroduced horses
  • Foreginers in search of gold

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