SOCY 200 Lecture 2: SG for exam #2.docx
4 May 2015
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Frontier societies (point of view of europeans: usa, canada, australia, new zealand, iceland, europeans show up and wipe pout the majority of the population through warfare and germs, undersupply of labor, absence of feudalism, population of commerce. Proximate causes of european discovery: maritime technology, ocean going ships, compass, multiple masts, steel rudder, military technology, steel weapons and armor, cannon, horses, rapid movement of men and supplies (especially in military, social technology, writing and mechanical printing, centralized bureaucratic polity, germs, eliminated 95% of indigenous people. In the americas: eliminated thousands of societies, depopulated surviving societies, changed the culture of surviving societies, brought about european immigration, brought about trans atlantic slave trade, changed racial composition. Germ theory of disease (late 1800s: microbes, 1400"s simple microscope, semmelweis, antiseptic techniques, lister, sterilized surgical tools, pasteur, given the most credit, koch, 1905 nobel price for proving the entire theory.
