HIST 8A Lecture 2: lecture 2 + 3
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Week 1 lecture #1 indigenous background: term (cid:498)indio(cid:499) is a misnomer. Sedentary ( (cid:498)settled(cid:499), most populous when europeans arrived: incredible cultural and linguistic diversity in the indies or the americas, 3 basic settlement patterns: Non-sedentary (deal with extreme weathers) sedentary peoples characteristics: Monumental architecture (built pyramids; all stone, manual labor, no iron) Elaborately recorded history ( manual scripts on deer skin sewed together) most populous areas. 2 major sedentary populations at time of initial contact with europeans: Mesoamerica: central and southern mexico and central america. Andes: modern-day ecuador, peru, bolivia mesoamerican periods: Yucatec (cid:498)inca(cid:499) other languages: aymara, mochica, chibcha classical to medieval times; north and west african much of asia lecture #2. Iberian background: ethnic diversity, celts, phoenicians, greeks, romans, visigoths, jews, gypsies, castilians, basques, catalans, galicians, portuguese. Islam in iberia: 711-1492, (cid:498)moros(cid:499) (moors): umayyads, almoravids, berbers, almohads , al andalus=andalusia, influence of baghdad, damascus, syria, tunisia, algeria and other flourishing cities on.
