SPAN 44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Quiche, Latin Alphabet, Maya Civilization
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The americas before the arrival of the europeans. Already populated, lots of cultures languages and people. Look at the differences and the similarities. Latin america on the eve of the european discovery. Inca was the biggest and very complex northern ecuador all the way to chile. Got to brazil there were different tribes that spoke tupi (different variations) When colm island in the caribbean, the caribs tainos, arawaks already there. Substantial amount of different cultures and people. Lots of variations, complex continent before the spaniards got to latin america. Social and cultural linguistics became more complicated after. The complexity prior to european arrival had a complex history. We don"t know exactly but there were huge losses due to military warfare, disease, culture shock in the first few years of the conquest (16th century), no records or census at the time. Incomplete picture because they didn"t know everything about the continent.
