pre-columbian america and europe. myths & realities
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Pre-Columbian America and Europe
![Page 2: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Myths & Realities
![Page 3: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
1. Jose de Acosta
2. Pleistocene Epoch migration 60,000-15,000
BCE
![Page 4: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
1. Folsom technology2. Desert nomadism3. Forest efficiency
![Page 5: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
![Page 6: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
1. Complexity- population growth- gender roles: production &
reproduction
![Page 7: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
2. Urbanization 3000 BCE – 1200 CE- Anasazi Hopi, Zuni, Pueblos
- Mississippian “mound builders”
Ecological instability
Bottle Creek
![Page 8: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
1. N. America- decentralization
Southwest - Pueblos, PimasSoutheast - Creek, Choctaw, CherokeeNortheast - Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca
![Page 9: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
2. C. & S. America- Aztecs, Incas
![Page 10: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
In 1492…- 2000 distinct cultures 60M ?
- North America 7-10M ?
…Western Hemisphere had been “prepared” for invasion.
![Page 11: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Colonization of the New and Old Worlds, 1500 - 1763
![Page 12: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
1. Reason and nature- Renaissance
2. Imperial Ecology
Prince Henry
![Page 14: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
3. Small world
![Page 15: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
1. Reformation and war 1535-1648
Peace of Westphalia 1648
![Page 16: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
2. Absolute monarchy 1500s - 1700s
James I (England)Louis XIV (France)Elizabeth I (England)Philip II (Spain)Peter the Great (Russia)Catherine the Great (Russia)Frederick the Great (Prussia)Gustavus Adolphus (Sweden)
![Page 17: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
3. Mercantilism
“zero-sum” gamejoint stock companies
![Page 18: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The Consequences of Colonization
![Page 19: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
1. Portuguese Empire
![Page 20: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
2. “New World” slavery
![Page 21: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
1. Ecological Imperialism- success of Old World flora/fauna
2. The microbial exchange
1492 7-10M1900 250K
![Page 22: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
3. Era of Western dominance (Modernity)- safety valve- commodities- economics of addiction
tobacco, coffee, tea, sugar
![Page 23: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
1. ProRichard HakluytJean Baptiste Colbert
- spurred domestic growth- strengthened national position- empowered “absolute” monarchs
![Page 24: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
2. ConBartolomè de Las Casas 1590s
- Jesuit critique
Comte de Buffon 1770s- frontier debased humanity,
civilization
![Page 25: Pre-Columbian America and Europe. Myths & Realities](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062720/56649f145503460f94c2869a/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Conclusion…
1) Native societies prepared New World for invasion2) Modern Europe driven to expand3) Advantages of colonization outweighed moral or
intellectual objections