HIST 211- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
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The first americans: crossed the bering strait (15-60,000 years ago, diverse civilization, hundreds of languages and numerous types of societies, more advanced societies in the south, population: 37-100 million by contact, society. Land and property: families had a right to use land, but not own it. Agriculture revolution: crop system, domestication of animals. Voyages of discovery: sought sea route to the east, silk, tea, spices, porcelain, etc, convert asians to christianity, discovered north america (october 12, 1492) New france: objective, commercial, not mass migration, relations with indians, fur trade opened diplomatic, military, and commercial relations, located mississippi river. New netherland: henry hudson located the hudson river (1609, objective: trade; not conquer. Columbian exchange: the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the western and eastern. Hemispheres: mixing of cultures, native americans, europeans, and africans. Initiated to ideas representative government and religious tolerance: redistribution of world population. Federal government had no power to tax or regulate commerce: one house legislature.
