HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Eclipse Records, Social Stratification, Bubonic Plague
22 Nov 2012
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In 1491, both the old and new worlds possessed: Metallurgy (smelting, forging, etc) -social stratification, cities and merchant class. Architecture- aqueduct, canal, walled city, arch pyramids, fired brick. Tenochtitlan larger than any city in spain, causeways, pontoons with food growing in middle of lake. A forest garden is an unplowed, tree-dominated field. Almost entirely maintained with local resources (household refuse/compost) Forests turned into farms and used to build cities and ships. Competition between states for territorial and commercial dominance particularly over the trade with asia. Tenochtitlan 200,000 people in 16th century, founded in 1325. Many aztec books were burned by europeans/clergy, seen as sacrilegious.
