U.s. History Meeting Of The Three Worlds-Native Americans

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How many people were already in America in 1492?

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70 million

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Where did the native americans originally come from?

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Asia and Siberia at least as early as 9,000 B.C.E. They crossed on ice bridges.

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Benefits of agricultural society?

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More energy to further society-urban dimension, roads, canals, etc.
populations grew.

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Aztecs and Incas?

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By 5,000 B.C.E. both had begun agriculture. They grew grain vegetables and fruit.

They also had complicated political systems, roads, and canals.

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3 cultures with sophisticated agricultural practices?

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Hopi, Zuni, Hohokam

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Hohokam?

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Had well-developed irrigation system for dry, crappy land in Southwest which rivaled irrigation systems along Tigris and Euphrates. Not surpassed, technologically speaking, until mid 1800s

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Indian diet

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More nutritional than European diet, European's disgusted.
Ate pretty much everything except grizzlies, owls, coyotes, and eagles.

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Indian Science

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Classified plants and animals into categories resembling modern day botanical and zoological..ones.

dissected stuff.

passed down info orally

rivaled english science at time

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Indian Medicine

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Used tree bark, plants, herbs etc. Many chemicals in these plants are now used in modern medicine.

They set bones, perfomed surgery and psychoanalysis, etc.
Shaman's did a lot of this, they were "wise."

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Fire-burning

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burned their fields to make the grass grow back better every fall and spring, and attract better game. only recently did modern people start doing this.

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religion and nature

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indians saw themselves as a part of nature. they worried about staying on the god's "good side" and the gods apparently didn't like waste.

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indian ceremonies

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puberty, birth, marriage, death, all ecological ceremonies, usually with ceremonial offering by shaman.

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population control

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indians practiced population control-chemical contraceptives, sexual taboo, marriage customs, etc., because they wouldn't want to have too many people, that would screw up the land.

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New World

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this and virgin land were misnomers, since America had been inhabited for thousands of years.

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collectivism in indian society

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indians put emphasis on group rather than individual, with really strong ties within the tribe.
"totality of existence" woven together, etc.

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conflict

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there was very little conflict within the Indian tribe, but they fought with other tribes.

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discipline

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public disapproval,occasional expulsion were pretty much all that was necessary.

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women's roles

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local, finding food, shelter, clothing, etc.
very important, their opinions on land mattered.
because of their importance in agriculture, they were sometimes allowed political power as well (Iroquois).

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male's roles

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there was no male supremacy, as women were center of agriculture, but in addition to the women's duties, men's extended to politics, warfare, and religion

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Ohlone deer hunt

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ridiculous sweatbox to river thing, they would pretend to be the animal they were hunting. really big deal to get the food, but he didn't get to eat it. he got to eat disgusting stuff so he would throw up and be more "one with the world."