HTS 6XXX Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mica, Complex Network, Mississippian Culture
25 Jan 2013
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Big picture/preview chapter 11 : people and civilization of the americas. Environment and disease migration, patterns of settlement technology. State-building, expansion, and conflict-political structures and forms of governance, expansion. Gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions. The mesoamerican civilization of the period 600 to 9000 was the culmination of several centuries of growth involving several people speaking different languages. Building on the earlier achievements of the olmecs and others the peoples of today"s central americca developed new forms of government and organization. Populations grew traders exchanged a variety of products over long distances and social hierarchies became more complex. Classic period cities continued to be feature platforms and pyramids devoted to religious functions. Political and cultural innovations did not depend on new technologies, some technologies were centuries old but still used. Achievements depended on the ability of increasingly powerful elites to organize and command growing numbers of laborers and soldiers: teotihuacan, the maya.
