HIUS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Silk Road, Cash Crop, Llama
15 Feb 2018
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Video- america before columbus: corn- first genetic engineering mississippi river wherever it flourishes, great civilizations come. Incas- potatoes llama is the biggest domesticated mammal in the americas : 1491 amazon rainforest . Maryland: founded in 1634 by lord baltimore, refuge for catholics. Pennsylvania: swedish and dutch 1634-1680, quackers and william penn (1681) Charles ii: granted as a place for the germans, austrians and swiss protestant refugees, plantation colony. Indian relations, slavery and economic success: the two sides to indian relations, negatives, pequot & king philips war, commercial relationship with puritans became strained, enslavement, a few sporadic cases, normally unsuccessful, disease, small pox, plague. Influenza: typhoid, 90% died from disease, relocation, (cid:862)i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) reser(cid:448)e(cid:863, positive, roger williams of rhode island, natives were preferred compared to settlers, moravian brethren missions, new york, pennsylvania, georgia. Triangular trade - with america and africa and europe slaves were the. Caribbean and then sold to either north or. <5% of slaves ended up in thirteen colonies.
