HIST 2055 Chapter : Aug 29 Outline
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Indians: origins naming is making an argument, the whole concept of indians is a post settlement phenomenon; they are a group because they are not africans or europeans but they all had their own tribes. They may have come from asia when there was an ice age that created a land bridge, but it is unknown, there is also an argument that there are pacific islanders that hopped from coast to coast. They were there much longer before columbus discovered america. Settlement by time of columbus: numbers there was an estimate that there were between 50-100 million native. Americans, our part had less than south america (5-7 million), 200 years of settlement before the. The pueblo were very early, they built into the hills of the southwest (towns and housing complexes). They built kivas, in about 1200 they about disappeared, the farming of corn probably caused the land to go desolate and had the civilization fall apart.
