HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Animal Husbandry
Document Summary
10-20 million natives before columbus: others argue much more, politically binding question. After settlement down to 240,000: staggering drop, rapid drop. A new world is a place of mutual discovery that forces human beings to imagine themselves and their place in the world in new ways. Moreover, the term world implies not just a physical place, but also a cultural place. For a significant period after european peoples arrived, America remained a familiar place both physically and culturally: 250,000 people in tenochtitlan when cortez got there. Very few places on earth had that many people: 30,000 people lived in cahocia city in illinois along the mississippi. Until 1800, this was the largest city north of the rio grande: very complicated sophisticated stuff. Declined because of droughts, floods, and outside attack: kool houses, religion, irrigation and animal husbandry, checks and balances system.
