HIS271Y1 Lecture : Lecture 1.docx
Document Summary
New worlds and old worlds: the first americans. More of an encounter between different peoples (3 native, european, African) as opposed to a conflict between 2 peoples. Was crossed without the realization of moving across continents: found an environment teeming with plants and animals that had never encountered human life. Hunting was much easier and people were able to spread themselves further out: melting of the ice turned the bridge back into an ocean and separated the people from the rest of europe. Huge diversity of native peoples languages, cultures, traditions, etc. North american cultural groupings: based on the environmental surroundings in which people lived. Relatively stable environment agricultural settled down more, less nomadic. More nomadic: social and political groupings, environments shape the population density, majority lived in the eastern woodlands area. Major differences from europeans: don"t have organized religion in comparison to the catholic.
