HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Serpent Mound, Columbian Exchange, Times New Roman
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An indian chief, john white, 1585 natives facing europeans. First contact: native population of 2-18 million. Most were english, irish, german or aa, but only 250,000 were natives. Renaissance: rebirth, revival of classical roman and greek, connection between middle ages and modern times. Modern towns and nation states: there was no country but only region. Queens and kings tried to gather together people under their nation: england, spain. Europeans became excited by the prospect of discovering a new route to asia, Increased trade: exchange items where spices, jewels, land and people to convert appeared to be plentiful. Religious descent and the rise of protestantism: martin luther. 1492: approximately 75 million people lived in the new world. Water makes city a city: ohio river and mississippi river went through a lot of lands, native tribe existed all along the rivers and they extended a long way, very influential. Great serpent mound of ohio: ceremonies, etc.
