Outline: The Native Americans: October 11, 1492
American Realities, I,1 “The Native Americans: October 11, 1492”
(This outline is not a “substitute” for reading the chapter, but it may help you review the story and understand it better.)
Overview: The story of America began long before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers. Thousands of years before the Spanish reached the shores of the New world and thanked God for their safe landing at San Salvador, indigenous peoples spread across the landscape shaping it to fit their unique cultural practices, diets, and lifestyles. These complex societies would be irrevocably changed by the mass influx of European soldiers and settlers, but for thousands of years they were the only civilizations in the Americas.
Outline
1. Native Peoples of Mexico: Tulum, the Mayans’ tradition, Toltec invasion, diet (venison, maize, seafood), Cozumel and Izchel, trade and contact, Aztecs and Tenochtitlan,chinampas, Huitzilopochtli, emperor, religion, expansion, tribute, human sacrifice, marketplaces, barter, oral tradition: history, theology and philosophy, priests, “…ideological framework for an orderly world…” tools, adult life, marriage, value of goodness, traditions, “…beget children of good stature, healthy, agile and comely.”
2. Native Peoples of the Future United States: Timuquans, farm practices, hunting, food preservation, Council of State, battlefield tactics, victory trophies, grieving processes, peace times, clothing and bodily adornments, religious practices, marriage. The Natchez, Mississippi River, mound building, Cahokia, the Great Sun, funeral traditions, Emerald Mound, social order, Stinkards, exogamy. Distinctive cultures, trade within Indigenous populations.
3. The Arrival of Spanish Explorers: Christopher Columbus, China, diet on ships, sacred observances, Ave Maria, signs of land, Pinta, “Land! Land!” San Salvador, Arawak interaction, peaceful relations and trade, American products (maize, potatoes, and tobacco), loss of the Santa Maria, gold ornaments, Viking antecedents, the “Columbian Exchange,” Old World disease in New World, Amerigo Vespucci, Martin Waldseemuller and America, slow spread of contact, Hernando Cortes, Native cultural influence, the “pristine myth,” Hernando De Soto, buffalo, humanity of American history.
(This outline is not a “substitute” for reading the chapter, but it may help you review the story and understand it better.)
Overview: The story of America began long before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers. Thousands of years before the Spanish reached the shores of the New world and thanked God for their safe landing at San Salvador, indigenous peoples spread across the landscape shaping it to fit their unique cultural practices, diets, and lifestyles. These complex societies would be irrevocably changed by the mass influx of European soldiers and settlers, but for thousands of years they were the only civilizations in the Americas.
Outline
1. Native Peoples of Mexico: Tulum, the Mayans’ tradition, Toltec invasion, diet (venison, maize, seafood), Cozumel and Izchel, trade and contact, Aztecs and Tenochtitlan,chinampas, Huitzilopochtli, emperor, religion, expansion, tribute, human sacrifice, marketplaces, barter, oral tradition: history, theology and philosophy, priests, “…ideological framework for an orderly world…” tools, adult life, marriage, value of goodness, traditions, “…beget children of good stature, healthy, agile and comely.”
2. Native Peoples of the Future United States: Timuquans, farm practices, hunting, food preservation, Council of State, battlefield tactics, victory trophies, grieving processes, peace times, clothing and bodily adornments, religious practices, marriage. The Natchez, Mississippi River, mound building, Cahokia, the Great Sun, funeral traditions, Emerald Mound, social order, Stinkards, exogamy. Distinctive cultures, trade within Indigenous populations.
3. The Arrival of Spanish Explorers: Christopher Columbus, China, diet on ships, sacred observances, Ave Maria, signs of land, Pinta, “Land! Land!” San Salvador, Arawak interaction, peaceful relations and trade, American products (maize, potatoes, and tobacco), loss of the Santa Maria, gold ornaments, Viking antecedents, the “Columbian Exchange,” Old World disease in New World, Amerigo Vespucci, Martin Waldseemuller and America, slow spread of contact, Hernando Cortes, Native cultural influence, the “pristine myth,” Hernando De Soto, buffalo, humanity of American history.