Lecture 2 Notes
US History 109: Lecture 2
Primary Source Document Chosen: 2.4 Elizabeth Sprig
Mid-Term will be Mulitple Choice/Essay -440 is a Study Room -2nd floor mezzanine-can study
For Wednesday:
-Read next documents, Barbosa and Columbus
Documents Referenced:
Primary Source Document Analysis
Calander Review:
Week 1
Week 2-Practice
Week 3-Monday off -Submit Document Analysis by 8 AM on turnitin
Week 4-Take Hom Quiz Due/Mid-Term Review
Review:
Hohokam: Individualistic Farmers
Anasazi: Communal, torn apart by drought
Lecture:
-North American Cultural Groups and Geographic Areas
-Eastern Woodlands -Missisippi Valley to Atlantic Coast -Mound Builders -Cohokia -Large urban center, population 30,000 -Religious leaders lived above -Sophisticated agricultural techniques -Domesticated animals -Turkeys -Deer -Before cattle (columbian exchange) -Complex trading system -Skilled Artisans -Went all the way up to great lakes (Michigan) -All the way south to the Atlantic Coast -Growing Maize & Beans -Overall Decline in 13th century (we don't know what happened) -possibly drought -definitely warefare within -evidence of human sacrifice & canibalism -resulted in small villages
-Southeast
-Chocktaw, Chickasaws, Creek, and Cherokee -areas such as Georgia, North/South Carolina, etc. -relied more on hunting -hunted Buffalo -no horses at the time, so they were dragging everything -no rulers/kings, much more egalitarian (leaders included women) -Village Like, no urban cities -SOME trade and warfare but not all the time -different tribes, had their own languages and culture -all along the whole eastern seaboard
-Northeast
-New York, New England, etc. -Iroquoian and Algonquian Language Families -Cultivated corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers -Iroqois are more farm based -Iroquois Confederacy 15th century -Already have a
Primary Source Document Chosen: 2.4 Elizabeth Sprig
Mid-Term will be Mulitple Choice/Essay -440 is a Study Room -2nd floor mezzanine-can study
For Wednesday:
-Read next documents, Barbosa and Columbus
Documents Referenced:
Primary Source Document Analysis
Calander Review:
Week 1
Week 2-Practice
Week 3-Monday off -Submit Document Analysis by 8 AM on turnitin
Week 4-Take Hom Quiz Due/Mid-Term Review
Review:
Hohokam: Individualistic Farmers
Anasazi: Communal, torn apart by drought
Lecture:
-North American Cultural Groups and Geographic Areas
-Eastern Woodlands -Missisippi Valley to Atlantic Coast -Mound Builders -Cohokia -Large urban center, population 30,000 -Religious leaders lived above -Sophisticated agricultural techniques -Domesticated animals -Turkeys -Deer -Before cattle (columbian exchange) -Complex trading system -Skilled Artisans -Went all the way up to great lakes (Michigan) -All the way south to the Atlantic Coast -Growing Maize & Beans -Overall Decline in 13th century (we don't know what happened) -possibly drought -definitely warefare within -evidence of human sacrifice & canibalism -resulted in small villages
-Southeast
-Chocktaw, Chickasaws, Creek, and Cherokee -areas such as Georgia, North/South Carolina, etc. -relied more on hunting -hunted Buffalo -no horses at the time, so they were dragging everything -no rulers/kings, much more egalitarian (leaders included women) -Village Like, no urban cities -SOME trade and warfare but not all the time -different tribes, had their own languages and culture -all along the whole eastern seaboard
-Northeast
-New York, New England, etc. -Iroquoian and Algonquian Language Families -Cultivated corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers -Iroqois are more farm based -Iroquois Confederacy 15th century -Already have a