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    * Change Analysis Chart Postclassical (600-1450 C.E.) | Basic Features at Beginning of period | Key Continuities | Key Changes | Basic Features at End of Period | Reasons for Change or Continuities | Global Trade What other trading systems existed at the beginning of the period? The Indian Ocean system is a continuity‚ not a change.What about the gold-salt trade? Don’t you mean the Pax Mongolica? | * Trade was very international. * Silk roads linked Eurasia‚ and goods traded hands many

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    APUSH Unit 1 Rd 1 IDs

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    1443  Unit One​  ​ Reading 1 IDs    Henretta Chapter 1 pp. 6­18 and Chapter 2    Identifications:​   Briefly define in 2­3 sentences each identification (person‚ place‚ event‚ idea)  and explain the significance of each to the time period being studied.    1. Tribute ­ ​ Tribute was a way to collect goods from the groups conquered by the Aztecs.  They would take advantage of the trading routes of the valley and the goods imported to  them. The city displayed great wealth with the gold‚ textiles‚ cacao

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    * Tonga Islands Necklace‚ ca. 1810-30 Whale teeth‚ Fiber 86.50.2 IUAM 31 in. cord; 5.25 in. longest tooth Madison Turner FINA-A351 December 3‚ 2012 * The object of art in which this paper analyzes is a necklace from the Tonga Islands‚ approximately from the period of 1810-1830. It is made of tabua- polished ivory whale’s teeth- that has been decorated with dark motifs and strung on a fiber cord. The approximate length of the necklace’s cord is 31 inches‚ with the longest tooth measuring

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    Mbuti Pygmies Bands ANT 101 Instructor: Justine Lemos 10 April‚ 2011 Mbuti Pygmies Bands The Mbuti Pygmies are a peaceful people living life as they have for several thousands of years in Ituri forest in the Congo of Africa. Their numbers have been estimated between 30‚000 to 40‚000 all living throughout the Congo. Although their way of life has changed since their discovery by modern man‚ they cling to what is true in their hearts. I was surprisingly amazed how the bands of Mbuti families’

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    Society‚ or human society‚ is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations‚ or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory‚ subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent

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    Anthropology 1A03 Exam Review Week 7 Monday October 18-Thursday October 21 “Expressive Culture” (Miller Text Chapter 11) Expressive Culture October 18: Expressive Culture is: Behaviour and beliefs related to art‚ leisure‚ and play. - linked to other cultural domains such as: Exchange: pot latching art and dance‚ Bodily modification. Decorations‚ tattoos Religion: clothing‚ practices‚ etc. What is Art? Art is application of imagination‚ skill and style to matters movement‚ and sound

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    Chapter 1 Lady of Cofitachequi: Cofitachequi was a paramount chiefdom encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. They encountered the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi in April of 1540‚ at the Mulberry Site‚ a large platform mound at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River‚ near present-day Camden. Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants‚ they spread throughout North and South America‚ probably moving as bands composed of

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    August 22‚ 2012 Sub-Fields of Anthropology: 1. Biological Anthropology – can demonstrate: how populations vary (biological variations; hair color‚ blood type‚ etc.) that past populations have evolved that modern human populations are evolving and changing through time. Biological/Physical Anthropology: Foundations in 1900’s – recognition of variation‚ concern over how species came to be. Major research areas: Paleoanthropology – anthropology concerned with fossil hominids; study of

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    Neha Rattu 09.06.2014 APUSH Chapter 1 1. Native Americans in the “New World” a. bad omens- lightning struck temple‚ blazing lights in the sky b. BAMM! White people are on the shores :O big shocker (let’s just welcome them‚ forgetting all the bad omens) c. HERNAN CORTES------ 1519 ----- shows his beautiful face to the Indians (key event in the discovery of the New World) d. WHYY DID HE COME? Well‚ in short‚ during the 1400-1500s in Europe‚ there was a lot of

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    Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argues that the West only dominated the world because they knew how to fight and were good at it. This is largely true and is evidenced by their influence on Eastern nations throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries all the way until 1945. The West forcefully colonized Africa following the abolition of the slave trade. Similarly‚ they imposed their will on China and caused social‚ political‚ and economic turmoil in their wake. Finally‚ in Japan‚ they

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