In "They Came Before Columbus"‚ Ivan Van Sertima stated that American cotton has an African ancestor. With this being said‚ the transferral of plants from one region to the other is somewhat similar as the migration of humans from one geographical area to another. The first plants originated in Africa‚ which explains the ancestral view of this situation. Just like it is believed that humans started from one general area‚ so did plants‚ and just like humans‚ plants traveled to different parts of
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Tashunti Frazier 3/7/2018 CHUM 230 – Humanities – Pre- Columbus through Emancipation Quiz MR. Miles Part 1: 50 points. Identifications: IN YOUR OWN WORDS‚ be able to identify and describe the historical significance of the following. Be sure you can answer the key historical questions‚ who‚ what‚ where‚ when‚ and why it’s important to history—if necessary. 1. The Nile Valley and the “Emperor of the World”: The Nile valley is a stream that streams north. Known to be the longest stream
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America Before Columbus In the age just before Columbus sailed the ocean blue‚ there was abundant life‚ lifestyles‚ and necessities that sustained that. In the 1500s‚ Europe was as tense as ever. Kings and popes raise armies to fight against one another. The population capacity of Europe at this time was around one hundred million people. At this point‚ Isabella‚ the Queen of Spain‚ is the most powerful woman in Europe as well. Livestock and agriculture grown in Europe became important
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parts of Asia‚ including India. Ancient African terracotta portraits 1000 B.C. to 500 B.C. Recent discoveries in the field of linguistics and other methods have shown without a doubt‚ that the ancient Olmecs of Mexico‚ known as the Xi People‚ came originally from West Africa and were of the Mende African ethnic stock. According to Clyde A. Winters and other writers (see Clyde A. Winters website)‚ the Mende script was discovered on some of the ancient Olmec monuments of Mexico and were found
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Honors US History‚ 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
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The article “America Before Columbus” written by Lewis Lord and Sarah Burke intrigues readers interest and curiosity with an interesting topic of Native Americans and America before Columbus arrived. I will be discussing some ideas I summarized from this article. First of all‚ I have never heard of the name Cahokia before prior to reading the article. I was surprised at the fact that it was once a city in Illinois. In fact‚ the article described Cahokia as an Illinois Babylon. In addition‚ a misconception
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Assignment – 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann For New research has emerged revealing that Indians had roamed & utilized the great lands of the Americas long before any European ship landed on its coast in 1491. Therefore‚ a conflict lies in debates about whether or not Native Americans possessed a complex history before the arrival of Europeans. Like the author of 1491: New Revelations of The Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann‚ Archeologists and Historians
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Columbus came to the New World for a variety of reasons. A few of these reasons included: wealth‚ converting non-Christians and to prove the theory of the earth being round. On Columbus’ journey to the New World he had actually set out on his project that he called “Enterprise of the Indies”. In this project he had set out to reach east by sailing west. Columbus wanted to prove the theory of the earth being round. Now Columbus’ journey was mainly based on the works of Ptolemy. If Ptolemy’s works
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Oral Report How Many People Were Here Before Columbus? By Lewis Lord George Catlin‚ the 19th-century artist‚ revered the Americans Indians-”a numerous and noble race of HUMAN BEINGS‚” he called them‚ “fast passing to extinction.” In the 1830s‚ he traveled among four dozens tribes to paint nearly 600 portraits and scenes of Indian life‚ most now hang in the Smithsonian. During his visits‚ his hosts extolled the blissful age before the settlers came‚ a time when tribes were much larger. “The
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usually been presented as either underachieving metahippies‚ tree-hugging saints or some combination of the two. The trouble with all such stereotypes‚ as Charles C. Mann points out in his marvelous new book‚ "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus‚" is that they are essentially dehumanizing.
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