History 2055

History 2055

Correlation

* high instances of slavery high instances of poverty, but there is no stats on it.

I. Beginnings

A. The perils of starting somewhere

* rebuilding

* there is no universal language.

B. What we’re concerned with: mindsets, expectations, technology.

II. Native America

A. Mississippian civilizations (1100-1300)

* they start to organize

* they form around the mississippi river

* mounds were delibertly builds

* loosely ruled

* trade routes between communities

* THE THREE SISTERS

* Corn

* Squash

* Beans

* Europeans don’t see the planning and the way the “Indians” did things. They had it down with the farming and hunting.

* People move seasonally with the animal herds.

* They are organized in small communities.

* Europeans don’t understand becayse they have kings, queens, and lords. “Take me to your leader” cant work, because there are different ones in different groups.

B. Pre-Contact Indian civilizations

* they were not in perfect harmony with the world.

* The land seemed untouched because the Indians watched their “footprints”

* Europeans saw the lack of use of land and called it the garden of eden.

C. Diversity

D. Political organization

* They had small fluid political systems. They wax and whayne with what is needed at that time.

TEXTBOOK CHECK: “Ambitious men of ordinary birth saw acquisition of wealth as a path to social mobility.” (page 16)

* ordinary peasants

* What do they consider wealth?

* Gold is rare, shinny, universal

* Land was scarce in this time, and the more land you acquire the wealthier you seemed.

* Social mobility

* The way you look and carry yourself

* If you weren’t born into the noble blood, there was no social mobility for you.

* You may have to lie, cheat, and steal to have a better social mobility.

III. Africa

A. What is...