HIST 107 QUESTIONS‚ WALKTHROUGH AND NOTES Posted on: Monday‚ September 3‚ 2012 History 107 Fall 2012 Homework Assignment ONE On Brinkley‚ Chapters 1-4 and classroom lectures. For Antelope Valley Students: e-mail to dlewis60@avc.edu by Wednesday. September 19. For Citrus Students: e-mail to dlewis@citruscollege.edu by Thursday‚ September 20. Answer the following in a minimum of 750 words. You will likely find‚ however that you will need more than 750 words. Try and cover as much
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P1A 8/29/16 America Before Columbus Questions I thought this article was very captivating and enjoyed reading it. Something that surprised me was the Ancient Cahokia. Two facts that astonished me was that the Cahokia had a greater land area than the Great Pyramids of Egypt and that many textbooks in our day don’t mention the Cahokia. Some misconceptions that Europeans then had were that the Americas had not been settled before Columbus. They believed that it was just a bunch of little tribes
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1.The Shaping of North America 1.Recorded history began 6‚000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin the era of accurately recorded history on the continent. 2.The theory of “Pangaea” exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. The continents then spread out as drifting islands. 3.Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4.The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America
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Americas there was a cornucopia of different languages‚ economies and political systems. One notable culture that disappeared before the arrival of Europeans was the Mississippian culture‚ and in particular the Cahokia. The Cahokia made elaborate residences and burial sites. At its peak‚ the Cahokia had
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Chapter 7 Define: * Plateau: a relatively high‚ flat land areas * Desert * Savanna: broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs Define: * Animism: * Griot: a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history * Subsistence Farming: the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use‚ not for sale * Matrilineal: tracing lineage through the mother rather than the father * Patrilineal: tracing lineage through the father Know
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1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires And Eurasian Integration People: 1. Abbasids: Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty {750-1258 CE} that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid. 2. Chinggis Khan: Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3
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demise in the 9th century. Cahokia: Mississippian culture refers to the combined tribes of the Mississippi valley of the south-eastern US. They relied heavily on maize‚ squash‚ pumpkins and nuts. They established a hierarchal society with their largest city‚ Cahokia‚ covering 5 square miles near modern St. Louis. By its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries Cahokia housed 20‚000‚ more than London at the same time. They developed an accurate calendar but by 1250 Cahokia was deserted‚ possibly due to
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Although Antarctica is pretty irrelevant in the world today‚ its break off from the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland 30 million years ago‚ played a crucial role in stabilizing the climate for human life. In particularly‚ Its separation from South America created water gaps which allowed winds to sweep around the world.In addition‚ the separation created a cooler climate more stabilized for human life (Linden‚ 35). It was not until 5‚000 years ago when urban societies developed laying the foundations
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Reading Notes Chapter 1 Cahokia: Thirteenth-century Life on the Mississippi Cahokia‚ a city on the Mississippi River across from present day Saint Louis‚ was bustling with industry and farming around the mid 1200’s. It had almost 30‚000 residents at its peak. People went to work in the various industries such as the manufacturing of pottery‚ tools‚ jewelry‚ and the fashioning of metals. Hundreds of acres of farms grew pumpkins‚ corns‚ and beans‚ all crops native to America‚ among other things
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