AGRON 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Inca Empire, Atahualpa, Llama
1 Mar 2018
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Led to migration to americas by 12,000 bc. It took 1,000 years for humans to get to s. america. Massive extinction of large game in americas: Horses, lions, elephants, cheetahs, camels, and giant ground sloths. Chatham islands discovered by british seal hunting ship. 500 miles off coast of new zealand. Nine hundred of the native maori people of new zealand, Announced that the chatham islands people (the moriori) "the maori commenced to kill us like sheep We were terrified, fled to the bush, Concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed. "we took possessionin accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. It was in accordance with our custom". "the biggest population shift of modern times. Has been the colonization of the new world by europeans, The incas were conquered by the spaniard francisco pizarro. Collected a huge ransom in gold and silver.
