HISTORY 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Common Era, Sub-Saharan Africa, Bilateral Descent
8 Mar 2016
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Outline -- the spread of indian culture to southeast asia. It"s prehistoric so there are no written sources. Archaeological sources (artifacts people leave behind, grave sites, vegetation) Bce (before common era) before time of christ. People came in waves of settlements, from south china by land. Movement of people continued for thousands of years. Society was in rapid transition & growing quickly. Iron & bronze introduced in late century bce from india & china- used for agriculture & wars. Allow for the expansion of wet rice cultivation and ultimately population growth (late century bce and early ce) Also had long distance trade in sea by land & sea (as far as madagascar in africa-ish (related to indonesian). Social organization: village chief > religious specials (spirit medium), commoners. We know this by uncovering burial sites which show village chiefs with chinese porcelain and iron weapons (signs of high status). Chief had power by distributing these prestigious imports.
