AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Bartolomé De Las Casas, Salem Witch Trials, First Continental Congress
14 Apr 2014
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Estimates from 1942 range from 50-90 million: first natives likely arrived by bering strait, native american groups were not homogeneous, native civilizations in present-day u. s. , but more advanced societies in mexico, Tribes and groups of u. s: mound builders of mississippi river valley, the hopi and zuni of the southwest, the buffalo hunters of the great plains, various eastern tribes based on agriculture and hunting. Native freedom vs. european freedom: some europeans admired the free nature of native americans; others saw too much freedom, explorers often viewed native cultures as savage and uncivilized (religion, property, gender roles) European exploration: trade routes with far east the largest push for exploration (silk, tea, spices, and porcelain. 15th century: portuguese explorers est. themselves along the west african coast: items invented to help traveling, quadrant, 1487: bartholomeum dias cape of good hope. 1498: vasco da gama around africa to india.
