HI 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bering Strait, Kukulkan, Quetzalcoatl
11 Feb 2020
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Early european exploration of the new world & colonial. 25,000-30,000 years ago asia to bering straits. The common dental pattern found in most ancient human fossils. Fossilized bone tools found in yukon basin (1966) Evidence of human tool-making, house- building, rock painting. 5000 years ago- plant cultivation in central mexico highlands. Mesoamerican beurocracy by 1000 b. c. e in central mexico to central america. Urban: tenochtitlan (300,000 people, 5 times the size of european cities) Codexes, pages of pictures of how they lived, (what clothes and food looked like) invaders saw them as pagan and had them burned. Emperor called the incan, so europeans called them that, before they had no name for themselves. Irrigation (incredibly hard to do on mountains. Trephining- allowed them to cut a hole in a skull to let the brain swell and patients recover. (they could do brain surgery) Quinine, cocaine (used topically as an anesthetic), etc. 40-100 million people lived in the western hemisphere.
