HIST 1115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jared Diamond, Segway Pt, Ninety-Five Theses
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Missing class notes: ad, virginia gazette runaway slave ad, cartoon. Chapter 1: writing: system of symbols that record spoken language. America about 8k years ago: first human beings in the western hemisphere emigrated from asia, modern humans (homo sapiens) evolved in africa, two major developments that made it possible for ancient humans to migrate to the western. People successfully adapted to the frigid environment near the artic circle: 2. River: *** approximately 4 million native americans inhabited the us and canada, north american, eastern woodland peoples, algonquian. Small pox article: approximately 20 million people may have died following the european invasion, game from domestic animals, some people always died, but those who survived passed on antibodies. A(cid:396)eas (cid:449)ith diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:271)les had (cid:271)ette(cid:396) o(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)se oppo(cid:396)tu(cid:374)ities to su(cid:272)(cid:272)eed et(cid:272). According to jared diamond, what factors explain spanish success (as demonstrated by francisco pizarro) in conquering the incan empire (dominated by the ruler ataxalpa a. k. a.
