HIST205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Origin Myth, Solomon Stoddard, Salem Witch Trials
6 Apr 2017
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Imperial breakdown: commoners rebelled, sons of liberty and continental congress was started (had little room for women, blacks and natives). English examples were used such as crowd actions, public humiliation (tarring and feathering, and hanging effigies). Late 20 and early 21st century, cross-disciplinary studies. Combined with historical, ethnographical, archeological, a new perspective was created based on artifacts and complex cultures. Indian religion, trade, cultural innovations (corn), living arrangements according to climate/geo. Importance of archeology/history: if a historian chooses, he can wipe various parts of complex cultures and use a narrow-minded bias and stereotypical approach. Archeologist looks at the artifacts and interrupt cultural patterns without written language: woodland, cultural & linguistic algonquin, iroquoian, muskogean - atlantic, great lakes, Indians creeks, chickasaw, & natchez hunters & gathers & agriculture worshiped sun & built temple mounds natchez, ms: examine historiography on explorers during contact era. Focus on some books/types of history - material culture, social, economic, political studies.
