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Chapter 1
New World
Beginnings,
33,000 B.C.E.–
1769 C.E.
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Chapter 1

New World

Beginnings,

33,000 B.C.E.–

1769 C.E.

I. The Shaping of North

America

  • (^) 6 billion years ago: Earth; 6,000 years ago: Recorded History;

500 years ago: Europeans to Americas

  • (^) Pangaea to separated continents and waterways
  • (^) Mountain Ranges formed: in NA the Appalachians, Rockies,

Sierra Nevada, Cascades

  • (^) Canadian Shield
  • (^) Eastern coastal plains or tidewaters with river valleys
  • (^) Mid-continental basin and Mississippi River
  • (^) Inter-Mountain Great Basin
  • (^) Great Ice Age 2 million yrs ago-10,000 yrs ago with ice line as

far south as Pennsylvania

  • (^) Retreat formed craters=lakes (like the Great Lakes)
  • (^) Lake Bonneville covered much of UT, NV, ID and (all that remains today is the Great Salt Lake)

II. Peopling the Americas

  • (^) Boats to get here? (not agreed upon)
  • (^) Land bridge from Eurasia to NA around Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska - (^) Nomadic hunters - (^) Isolated by end of Ice Age and rising water levels
  • (^) Through NA east and S and SE to SA eventually
  • (^) 1492 54 millions Native Americans
    • (^) Including Inca, Aztec, Maya
  • (^) Maize
  • (^) Cities, commerce, astronomy, but also human sacrifice

III. The Earliest Americans

  • (^) Corn=from nomadic hunters to agricultural villagers
    • (^) Ex: Pueblo in Rio Grande Valley
  • (^) No big group in NA like Aztec, Inca, Maya
    • (^) Easier to conquer?
    • (^) Ohio River Valley Mound builders an exception
    • (^) Anasazi of SW an exception Chaco Canyon (present-day NM)
    • (^) Cahokia near St. Louis
  • (^) Three-sister farming by 1000 AD (squash, corn, beans)(allowed for higher population densities) - (^) Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek
  • (^) Iroquois in northeastern woodlands
    • (^) Leader Hiawatha
    • (^) A Confederacy
  • (^) But many Native North Americans in smaller, scattered communities
    • (^) 4 million?
  • (^) Many Matri-linear cultures
  • (^) Some slash and burn for agriculture, but also respect/reverence for Nature

IV. Indirect Discoverers of the New World

  • (^) Scandinavians to NA 1000 AD at L’Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland)(Vinland) - (^) Abandoned
  • (^) Explorers to/through Asia Africa next 100s years
  • (^) Sugar and spice and everything nice drove exploration/conquest - (^) Expensive via current routes/trade methods - (^) New way?

V. Europeans Enter Africa

• Marco Polo 1295 (made up?) China

– Did inspire others to explore

• Caravel ship and return westward breezes for

Portuguese mariners

– Access to sub-Saharan Africa

• Gold and slaves

– 1488 Dias around the Cape of Good Hope

– 1498 da Gama reached India

• The Spanish want theirs (look westward?)

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VI. Columbus Comes upon a New World

  • (^) Cheaper products wanted, slave labor allowed for plantations, long-range oceanic travel possible, Renaissance spirit of optimism and adventure, Printing presses 1450, mariner’s compass
  • (^) DISCOVERY, CONQUEST, COLONIZATION!
  • (^) GOD, GOLD, GLORY!
  • (^) Columbus
    • (^) Italian, sailed for Spain, 6 weeks to Bahamas on 10/12/ - (^) Successful failure (was aiming for Indies, underestimated Earth’s size) - (^) Thought Indies, Indians