HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Cronon, Machu Picchu, Woodhenge
29 Jan 2018
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Bluebook: need 2 for midterm and final (lecture 1) People of color (a variety of races) Dont use this terminology (if more info needed, look under the papers folder on blackboard and you can see how to talk about race) Remember- we know what is going to happen. 1000 bc- 1 million people living in americas. Native americans, american indian, first nations, indigenous people, tribal. Origin stories- see themselves as very different than their neighbors. Mother vs father family- run families based on women instead of men. Land ownership: william cronon: the difference between indians and europeans was not that one had property and the other had none; rather it was they loved property differently. Some kind of accepted form of commerce. Mississippian people- south east (cahokia- miss river: st. louis) 100 mounds: monk"s mounds 110ft, 16 acres- nobody knows what they"re actually used for. Largest city north of mexico- abandoned mid 13th century.
