The Early American History Notes
American History Notes
Ch.1
* 1000-1200 AD … Cahokia community * Part of the Woodland culture (Missisipian people) * Pop. 10,000-20,000 * Gone by the time Europeans come to America * Lived along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers * Lived in houses * Farmers * Traders * Largest civilization in US * Moral Code * Mound builders The great serpant mound is theirs * May have went extinct because of drought, locusts.. bad seasons, warring tribes, internal tribal warfare, natural disaster, disease * Aztecs * Mayans * Incas * Peru
* Migration routes from Asia to America * Berengia land bridge (walk from Russia to Alaska) * DNA proven * America’s populated by this (last place to become populated) * Europeans come in 1500 by boat *
CH. 2 * Columbus’s Transatlantic Voyage 1492 * Marco Polo * Late 1200’s early 1300’s * Walks to china and sets up trading * Trade exists Europe, China/India, Middle east and Africa * The Vikings * Have no significance of Columbus’s journey * Economic Contemplation * International trading going on * Aggressive trade – Murcantolism * Set economic pie * Control more of the share of the pie * Don’t grow more wealth, but control economic wealth * Encourages risky practices * Warfare * Risk taking * Europe * Spanish Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella * Want more Economic control * Intense religious conflicts * Europe resents Mid east because they aren’t Catholic * Ferdinand and Isabella head of the Catholic Church * Want make Catholism the dominant religion
Ch.1
* 1000-1200 AD … Cahokia community * Part of the Woodland culture (Missisipian people) * Pop. 10,000-20,000 * Gone by the time Europeans come to America * Lived along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers * Lived in houses * Farmers * Traders * Largest civilization in US * Moral Code * Mound builders The great serpant mound is theirs * May have went extinct because of drought, locusts.. bad seasons, warring tribes, internal tribal warfare, natural disaster, disease * Aztecs * Mayans * Incas * Peru
* Migration routes from Asia to America * Berengia land bridge (walk from Russia to Alaska) * DNA proven * America’s populated by this (last place to become populated) * Europeans come in 1500 by boat *
CH. 2 * Columbus’s Transatlantic Voyage 1492 * Marco Polo * Late 1200’s early 1300’s * Walks to china and sets up trading * Trade exists Europe, China/India, Middle east and Africa * The Vikings * Have no significance of Columbus’s journey * Economic Contemplation * International trading going on * Aggressive trade – Murcantolism * Set economic pie * Control more of the share of the pie * Don’t grow more wealth, but control economic wealth * Encourages risky practices * Warfare * Risk taking * Europe * Spanish Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella * Want more Economic control * Intense religious conflicts * Europe resents Mid east because they aren’t Catholic * Ferdinand and Isabella head of the Catholic Church * Want make Catholism the dominant religion