northward a. Trade turquoise with American Southwest b. How far – to Mississippi/Ohio – debatable evidence 1. Stepped temples – Monk’s Mound 2. Ritual sacrifice 3. pottery 4. Social stratification 5. Large city – Cahokia could handle 30‚000 people C. The Aztec Rise to Power – eagle with serpent on cactus 1. Geography – aquatic environment – chinampas a. Aztecs/Mexicas won control of lake b. Nomadic tribes or agricultural culture 2. Political structure
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Three years later‚ he tried to fulfill his dreams by returning‚ but instead landed in Spanish Texas and was murdered by his mutinous men in 1687. The fertile Illinois country‚ where the French established forts and trading posts at Kaskaskia‚ Cahokia‚ and Vincennes‚ became the garden of France’s North American empire. III. The Clash of Empires King William’s War and Queen Anne’s
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Hilton Case Study After staving off two major takeover attempts in the 1990 ’s‚ Hilton Hotels Corporations (HHC) decided to adjust its overall strategy and become more aggressive in its business operations. Although already a force in the hotel industry with a strategic focus in three areas: hotel ownership‚ managing and franchising‚ and timeshare; Hilton Hotels decided to shift more resources into gaming‚ resort operations and the mid-priced segment of the hotel industry (hotel-online.com 2006)
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HIST 151 Spring 2013 Exam 2013 Plymouth- originally headed toward Virginia but strayed off course of and made it to Cape Cod belonged to radical sect of Puritans called the separatist. Started to make their own congregation in England. King James hanged the separatist leaders and many fled to Holland and eventually to America. Taught how to grow corn and catch fish by the Indians. No charter from the English. Own form of government in 1620 not first English colony. Indentured servants- came
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As many as 75 million indigenous people lived in the Americas right before European contact. This was about the same as the population of Europe at that time. The majority of these peoples are thought to have come over via the Bering Strait region from 100‚000 to 14‚000 years ago during the periods when Ice Ages caused land bridges to form between Siberia and Alaska. Other possible origins include Polynesia and South Africa. Theorists such as Thomas Jefferson believed they originated here in America
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Ch. 4 -Culture in Chesapeake: life is short due to diseases. Men outnumber women 6-1. There are weak marital ties due to premarital pregnancies (A 3rd of brides were pregnant b4 wedding). There was a pop. increase w/native-born ppl who developed immunities (Vir. most populous colony in 18th c) -Tobacco in Chesapeake: It was good 4 tobacco cultivation. By 1700 Chesapeake exported 10 mill lbs of it a yr. The tobacco exhausted land& led to western expansion which agitated the Indians. Also‚ it led
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(McClory‚ 2001). The earliest settlers lived in tiny nomadic groups‚ (McClory‚ 2001). Soon the agriculture became more cultured so more permanent settlers started to permanently stay. There were three major cultures that emerged from this change: the Anasazi‚ Hohokam‚ and Mogollon‚ (McClory‚ 2001). There were no way to tell of a definite type of social organization‚ just complex architectural designs and artifacts that were left behind can only assume that there was some. The Spanish Period (1539 –
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AP U.S. History: Unit 1.1 HistorySage.com CONTACT: Europeans & Amerindians I. Overview—big ideas By 1600 Europeans had created the world’s first truly global economy. Meanwhile‚ the "age of discovery" resulted in the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever known: 90% of Amerindians died by 1600; slavery of tens of millions of Africans. Cultural differences between European and Amerindians were so immense that major conflict occurred in the 15th‚ 16th and 17th centuries. Summary
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hFeel free to add and edit as you please. It will be really awesome if we can type out a short answer to 8 each of the bulleted questions! - J.W. Turner Questions about the material that classmates may be able to answer: 1. Are you sure it’s supposed to say “New Zealand‚” not “Hawaii?” (below) ← Yeah‚ it’s supposed to be hawaii ← No‚ it’s supposed to be new zealand. I double checked. ← Can you tell us which slide you found this info on No its hawaii from ancient bump notes 2. 3.Could someone
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canabilism. They developed a system of agriculture. (The meson American civilizations were the birthplace in agriculture in North America. It extended from central Mexico to Central America.) In present day St. Louis was once the first largest city called Cahokia. Native American use of land was far more agricultural than Europe’s. In Western Europe the advances in technology and navigation (ship development‚ invention of magnetic compass‚ and astrolabe) caused explorers and adventurist to want to venture
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