HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Genetic Engineering, Main Source
Document Summary
Two vast continents teaming with natural life, great forests, jungles, glacial lands. Domesticated animals and agriculture helps europe to grow. Goats pigs sheep cows horses domesticate the land. 100 million live in north and mesoamerica. Cahokia - trading posts of earth and wood with populations of 1000s of people. It was a tiny grass that was domesticated to become its large cob size. Bison - main source of food and clothing. Hunted on foot dressed in hides, using bow and arrow. Untamed land in america is a rarity. Intensive agriculture diminishes fish supplies because of sedimentary deposits. Fishing is not an industry in america because it is unecessary. Amazon rainforest inhabited by 1000s of people in 1491 - expansion of the grassland. 7 million wild horses in 150 years. Blessing to some tribes, image of nomadic america. Pigs are a curse to native americans -- corn.
