HS 131 Lecture 6: HS131 Worlds Apart Notes
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Native america, europe, and west africa before 1492. 13,000 years ago hunters of large game. 900 bce warmer temperatures grasslands = deserts. 8000-1500 bce more complex way of life: gender specialized roles, long distance trade networks (marriage partners, goods, religious practices) The development of agriculture: population growth, permanent villages, large cities, change in women"s roles and status. Non-farming societies: artic and sub- artic nomadic cultures (inuits, aleuts, northwest coast and colombia river plateau. Mesoamerican civilizations: complex, literate and urban cultures 12,000 bce. Aztecs 900-110: central mexico, plazas, temples, palaces, marketplaces, pyramid, expansive empire military conquest and tribute payments. Ancestral puebloans or anasazis 1000 ce: colorado, utah, arizona, new mexico, complex irrigation system farming pueblos or village dwelling, 1200 changes multistoried cliff dwellings, warfare, climate change, 1300 dispersal = hopis and zunis. Plains indians: mandan, pawnees, traders, farmers, hunters. Eastern woodlands from mississippi valley to atlantic seaboard. Farmers, large populations, large urban centers: chaokia (st. louis)
