HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Avocado, Sweet Potato, Indian Massacre Of 1622

• School: University of Houston
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1376
• Professor: Hopkins Kelly

Document Summary

Opechancanough 1617-1646: native north america, the exchange of microbes, the columbian exchange. What"s important to these communities? security (the posts surrounding the communities) Not nomadic (false belief of indians being wanderers) > communities occupied for 20 years or so. Agricultural production (false belief of hunters and gatherers) [diff. pict] bigger space - more privacy, individualism. More freedom, more open communion, eating together separation of labor, based on gender and age. Not all indian communities are the same and didn"t have the same mindset as one another. All indians experience: goal of europeans: make north america look familiar and make it into a home. >all indians will experience these attempts of europeans. Europeans bring microbes for majority of native americans this will have a devastating impact. European/asian/african in origin: smallpox, typhoid, cholera, t. b. , flu, malaria, chicken pox, polio, black death, measles.