The First Americans The settling of the Americas Descended from bands of hunters and fishers Crossed the Bering Strait via land Arrived by sea from Asia or pacific lands 15‚000 to 60‚000 years ago Early inhabitants spread to the tip of south America Food crisis Wooly mammoth and giant bison extinct due to climate warm Near East 9‚000 years ago agriculture developed; corn‚ squash‚ and beans modern day Mexico and Andes Western hemisphere; no agriculture possible because of absence
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CULTURE: The system of shared beliefs‚ values‚ customs‚ behaviors‚ and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another‚ and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. LAYERS OF CULTURE People even within the same culture carry several layers of
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other Spanish colonies in the Americas‚ the Spanish settlement in the Philippines revolved around theencomienda system of plantations‚ known as haciendas. As the 19th Century progressed‚ industrialization and liberalization of trade allowed these encomiendas to expand their cash crops‚ establishing a strong sugar industry in the Philippines on such islands and Panay and Negros. American period[edit] The United States of America took possession of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War in
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Amerindians died from disease transmitted by contact with Europeans‚ a vigorous slave trade from Africa began and continued throughout most of the era. Slave labor became very important all over the Americas. Other labor systems‚ such as the mita and encomienda in South America‚ were adapted from previous native traditions by the Spanish and Portuguese. 6) "Gunpowder Empires" emerged in the Middle East and Asia - Empires in older civilization areas gained new strength from new technologies in weaponry
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History. the renaissance. -rebirth;period of west european’s history where there was a great philosophical and artistic movement. -14th to 17th century before the renaissance -decline in middle ages -focuses were mainly on rural and agricultural -writings mostly concerned with the Church -feudalism to national monarchies -man became interested with the affairs of the world; they began to drift from the Church; they started to question life; -crusades origin of italian renaisance the renaissance
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economic conditions. The trans-Atlantic encounter gave impetus to the development of international law‚ comparative ethnology‚ and theories of cultural development. By 1520‚ "New Spain" comprised two viceroyalties‚ in Mexico City and Lima. Meanwhile‚ encomiendas or feudal fiefdoms had been established on the conquered soil by the colonizers. In 1542‚ the Spanish "New Laws" decreed the indigenous peoples to be unenslaveable freemen (slaves from Africa had begun arriving in the 1530s). It was in this context
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SUBDIVISION VEHICLE ENTRY PASS USING RFID A Capstone Project Presented to The Faculty of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences Batangas State University-JPLPC Campus Malvar‚ Batangas IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPROVAL SHEET In partial fulfillment of the requirement for Systems Analysis and Design. This thesis entitled “Subdivision Vehicle Entry Pass using RFID for the Department of Engineering
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PART II: UNIT III: 1450 - 1750C.E. In the previous era (600-1450 C.E.)‚ sometimes called thepost-classical period‚ we explored the rise of new civilizations inboth hemispheres‚ the spread of major religions that created culturalareas for analysis‚ and an expansion of long-distance trade toinclude European and African kingdoms. However‚ no sustained contactoccurred between the eastern and western hemisphere. During the timeperiod between 1450 and 1750 C.E.‚ the two hemispheres were linkedand for
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--UNIT ONE & TWO: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST--- MAJOR EXPLORERS Balboa 1511: goes to Panama and is the first explorer to see the Pacific and the Americas Ponce de Leon (Spain) 1513: getting older seeks Fountain of Youth -- goes to Florida to prevent aging Magellan wants to circumnavigate the world gets killed in the Philippines but one of his boats successfully makes it given full credit -- Spain gains worldly agriculture Cortes major Spanish figure followers were
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COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Donald J. Mabry Professor of History Mississippi State University and The Historical Text Archive historicaltextarchive.com ii For Paula Crockett Mabry iii Preface The material in this book comes from my teaching Latin American history over many years. It does not pretend to be a textbook‚ although it could form the basis of one. It is more than an outline but much is omitted. This little book contains notes and commentary on important
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