HIST 286 Lecture 1: HIST 286 W1L1
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Week 1 readings: meade chapters 1-4. Julio ramon ribeyro the banquet from marginal voices. America, emphasizing the native heritage: term most people used, includes range: 9th largest economy in brazil, poorest like honduras, peru non. Calender more accurate then europe, astronomers knew more about western counterparts: like rome: mayan city states like tikal and p, and teot, early native high cultures left legacies even though they decayed that later indingeous societies would (like. Argentina: 1532: spanish captured the leader of incas, atahualpa demanded ransoms (fill two rooms, one with gold and other with silver) and best estimate: in metal only: -300 mill. America was a center of wealth and culture: 1660: population of 13 original american colonies totaled 75k. Just in central valley of mexico atleast 1. 2m. Lowest population of central valley ever got, after the diseases and epidemics hit the native population: largest cities in western hemisphere: meixco city, ima peru, salvadore.
