HIST 3071 : Test 1 Notes
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Native americans in louisiana: before and after european. Believed about 20,000 years ago the native americans travelled from asia over the bering land bridge (beringia) down through. Canada all the way to the american lands. Prehistoric native people: 10,000 to 6,500 b. c. = paleo people: 6,500 to 2,000 b. c. = meso people: 2,000 b. c. to 1,700 a. d. = neo people*, poverty point 1750-1250 b. c, first contact 1539 a. d. Poverty point (named from a plantation) is located in west carol. Written records move us from the pre-historic to the historic. Who made contact first: desoto (1539-1542, lasalle (1682, french colonizers iberville/bienville (1700) 1700: *the map, groups: caddoan, tunica, natchez/muskogean, houma, Contract alters: biological balance, locations, alliances, material culture, european contact altered these groups. The colonizers: **map slide (more interested in today"s louisiana location, the people of louisiana were buffeted around by the. French colonizers which altered their power, culture, and lifestyle so much.
