HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sweet Potato, Macadamia, Cocoa Bean
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They could only really domesticate the dingo (introduced by eurasia) and the macadamia nut. Basic tools, art, and other structures, arrowheads and boomerang. Aborigines are killed off by smallpox and other disease. They are also just flat out murdered by europeans. Europeans transform the environment into a european style, like farming, Bc a lot of native plants/animals were killed. Turns out the land itself is pretty good for agriculture, but the native plants weren"t. No natural predators, so the rabbits reproduce like rabbits vp p. Large continents isolated from eurasia by large oceans. Isthmus in the middle of the two continents. Super heavy, carved out of the mountains. They share a common culture, but just like city states stuff. More centralized than olmec, who they inherit from. Had a rudimentary writing system, like pictographs. Blood sacrifices and military might were important. States not sophisticated enough to stop the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
