- Jan 2016
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www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
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encomienda
not sure if i follow. so any spainard could give away indians and land?
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encomienda
not sure if i follow. so any spainard could give away indians and land?
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“we came here to serve God and the king, and also to get rich.
interesting, i thought one of the 7 deadly sins was greed?
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Native Americans lacked the immunities that Europeans and Africans had developed over centuries of deadly epidemics and so when Europeans arrived, carrying smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis, plagues decimated native communities. Death rates tended to be highest near European communities who traveled with children, as children tended to carry the deadliest diseases
wow, native americans system got corrupted by spainards, who brought horrible diseases, and in turn caused genocide of a sort
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I saw with these Eyes of mine the Spaniards for no other reason, but only to gratify their bloody mindedness, cut off the Hands, Noses, and Ears, both of Indians and Indianesses.
grotesque. hypocritical, as well. first they're such sweet people, and now that the king and queen needed some reward they were all of a sudden horrible creatures?
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“Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people … They love their neighbors as themselves, and their speech is the sweetest and gentlest in the world, and always with a smile.”
so upsetting that the europeans took advantage of such sweet people, got greedy and messed up what could of been great allies.
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Columbus underestimated the size of the globe by a full two-thirds and therefore believed it was possible
so was his placement from pure luck from underestimating?
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Slavery had long existed among African societies
interesting to see that the thing that most african americans are surpressed from was always existing in its own country.
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Sugar, a wildly profitable commodity originally grown in Asia
sugar is hard to grow, interesting this was a poular crop.
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Portuguese sailors innovated the astrolabe, a tool to calculate latitude
seems to be something like a compass, you put one end to the horizon to the sea and the other to the stars
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adopted Greek, Roman, and Muslim knowledge
culture seemed to be adopted and diverse, reminds me of all greek myths and philosophers
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accelerated nationalism and cultivated the financial and military administration necessary to maintain nation-state
why and how did it accelerate nationalism?
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Leif Erikson
I might be thinking really out of the box, but this reminds me of spongebob. happy leif erikson day.
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Native Americans spoke hundreds of languages and had adapted their lives to the hemisphere’s many climates
history teaches us that native americans were unintelligent, so this debunks that. humans were made to adapt to their environment.
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Women often chose their husbands, and divorce often was a relatively simple and straightforward process
super impressive. this whole bit is amazing.
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family and clan identity proceeded along the female line, through mothers and daughters, rather than fathers and sons.
yes, women! a difference between native and europeans
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Spiritual practices, beliefs on property, and kinship networks differed markedly from Europeans. Most Native Americans did not neatly distinguish between the natural and the supernatural. Spiritual power permeated their world and was both tangible and accessible. It could be appealed to and harnessed.
native americans were very much spiritually involved, it was a lot of who they were and their culture. oral stories of reincarnation and communicating with the spirits
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Pueblo Bonito
with a very small town popultion its cool to see the kind of building this was!.
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Cahokia experienced what one archeologist has called a “big bang”
what made this big bang occur out of nowhere?
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Slaves were defined in Native American culture not as property, but rather as people lacking kinship
interesting to see the evolved definition of a slave and how it differs from the first settlers to later in time.
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Elites maintained power through kinship, gift-giving, and by controlled access to the spiritual world.
this makes sense, a family bloodline, but access to the spiritual world? i guess i could see how access could mean a higher status...
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accompanied a decline in health. Analysis of remains reveals that societies transitioning to agriculture often experienced weaker bones and teeth
they were experiencing this because their teeth didnt need to be so strong to chew so much, chewing got easier
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three crops in particular–corn, beans, and squash, the so-called “three sisters”–provided nutritional needs necessary to sustain cities and civilizations
very interewting that these were the foods that sustained them, very nutritious and good foods for you
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Between two and eighteen million people lived north of present-day Mexico before the arrival of Europeans
so many people lived here before the "founding" of the americas, so why is immigration against these people still a problem to this day?
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Between two and eighteen million people lived north of present-day Mexico before the arrival of Europeans
so many people lived here before the "founding" of the americas, so why is immigration against these people still a problem to this day?
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Between two and eighteen million people lived north of present-day Mexico before the arrival of Europeans
so many people lived here before the "founding" of the americas, so why is immigration against these people still a problem to this day?
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Men typically hunted and women typically gathered and prepared wild foods.
okay... so sterotypical gender roles start.... here.
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Men typically hunted and women typically gathered and prepared wild foods.
okay... so sterotypical gender roles start.... here.
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But native populations adapted: they fished, hunted small mammals, and gathered nuts and berries.
humans are built to evolve and adapt to their environments, fight or flight
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mastodons and giant horses and bison
mastadons look like wooly mammoths, looks like they brought around big and stong animals
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megafauna–enormous
im assuming these are meant to mean really huge animals, and as i looked it up, pictures look like mammoth and dinosaur crossover?
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American history begins with them, the first Americans.
different to see a new perspective about this in history, it's refreshing and utterly true
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Europeans called the Americas “The New World.” But for the millions of Native Americans they encountered, it was anything but.
this is why a lot of people are starting to call Columbus day Indiginous Peoples day
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