Geography 2012A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Terra Preta, Epie Language, 2006 Oaxaca Protests
4 Feb 2017
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Tenochtitlan: was one of the biggest cities in the world, located in mexico. : pope brokered a deal between two budding empires. An accident: americas after the ice age as the sea levels rose. 12000 years ago: 8000 bce indigenous settle in tierra del fuego: tip of south america. Lesser antilles: taino in n, carib in s. Highly stratified: peasantry exploited the foundation of the societies. Large amount of humanity living in this region at this time. Most dense population mesoamerica and the andes. Mesoamerica and the andes consist of aztec, maya, and inca: historical amazon: believed there were a network of towns. Maya was not a cohesive empire as the aztec and the inca, during the arrival of the. The mayan cities were not discovered for 100 of years later. Dense populations, sophisticated material culture and religious sites. Milpa: the (cid:862)(cid:1007) siste(cid:396)s(cid:863: all of the crops were grown together in a mix, beans, squash and corn were grown together.
