HIST111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Caravel, Teotihuacan, Syncretism
7 Apr 2018
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People entered into the americas by bering land bridge (beringia ) during ice age from asia. Sea level was low so people could walk across the land bridge to alaska. For a long time, people thought it happened 1300 years ago. More archeological discoveries showed that it probably happened 25,000 years ago. Indigenous peoples had inhabited americas far longer than previously believed. E. g. no large native draft animals that can be domesticated (horses, oxen, cows), native peoples never developed the plough for agriculture, they have no one to pull ploughs. Eg. no metal tools because the types of metals deposited in americas. Entire n. america would be a bison farm. Indigenous peoples careful with bison, they cleared forests since bison didn"t like trees. East (oc, eastern us), european arrival, especially english wrote about how lovely forests were. Slow shift in scholarship to use term mexica . By 1300 , about 50 altepetl (city-state that"s independent and self-governing)
