[HIST 2310] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (28 pages long!)
5 Oct 2016
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Texas is a borderland: borderland space in which several cultures come together in conflict and cooperation. Colonization a multi-sided story among europeans, africans, and native americans. Peopling the america"s: 30,000 to 12,000 years ago. Bering land bridge theory: ice bridge during the ice age that men followed to get animals (mammoth), then found themselves at the tip of south america. Pacific kelp highway: people followed kelp forests along the pacific coasts. What does texas have to do with it: clovis people entered about 11,500 years ago who were hunters and gatherers from southwest texas, agriculture developed (7,000 bc) Population number: north america 12 to 18 million, mexico and central america 35 million, south america and caribbean 60 million. At least 400 different languages: mutually unintelligible they could not be understood because all of their languages did not come from a root language. Regional differences: central and south america. Languages, roads, construction, conquerors, they had empires: north woodlands.
