AMH2010 Part One 08 25 2010 When does the history of the United States begin At least 30 000 BC Ice age and a hunk of land emerged US doesn t fit the pattern of a nation around the world Who were these people Primitive Were they like other immigrants to America 1 Mobility 2 Adaptability 3 Diversity The Indians were also these three things Not only the immigrants Mobility Note the Scope of Settlement Mobility Trade Mobility traveled down to southern area note scope of the settlement vast amounts of territory covered lots of land not covered by ice many settlements moved around a lot thousands and thousands of miles mobility trade routes trace the movement of indigenous goods traced it into the eastern and western parts of north America no mobility no trade trade also brings disease because others entering into your area bring with them new germs etc When Europeans get to America they bring diseases Adaptability Money Natives bring up there own middle on trade Adaptability money money is valued due to it s scarcity eastern part used wampom beads clam shells this commodity was scare in inland north America trade money power Iroquois Wampom Belt ca 18th c learned to survive money power not only are these wampom beads used for trade and money they also now show status possessors of large cuontinies of wampom shells can make belts etc so the more shells the more power these wampom shells also were used to ensure deals or agreements between leaders etc Iroquois most powerful Indian nation build enormous widespread empire Teocentli into Maize food ways to flourish maze is a human made plant came from a grass which grew in central America which was developed into maize this food source made lots of things made things possible made it possible to develop stores of food reproduction becomes easier because trade becomes easier and surpluse of workforce so those not working develop religion mound builders adaptability translates into cultural achieve meant and diplomatic success other foodways NW coast salmon fishery Celilo Falls which caused them to invent a way to preserve the fish which allowed them to use them to buy things Trade Money Power Iroquois Wampum Belt ca 18 century Teocentli into Maize New Societies The Mound Builders Other Foodways NorthWest coast Salmon Fishery Celilo Falls Diversity types of housing 329 North American Languages language is more than just a way to talk to each other its an identity 5000 BC ancestors migrated down to southern tip of North America Who were these ancestors Primitive Were they like other immigrants Diversity types of housing 329 North American languages only know the ones we know becaue recorded in some way after European contact we know there were 2 000 when Europeans came each language is dramatically different from the others language isolates language not similar to any language around them why did they last so long more than just a way to speak to one another it is a mark of identity artifacts to a culture s identity Seminoles Creeks who are they Muskogean speakers living in and around the rivers and creeks of southern Georgia and Alabama Called Creeks by English fur trades Colonial Era some Creeks migrate south seeking refuge from English settlers Cimarrones African and Native American slaves who fled St Augudtine and other Spanish settlements along the Camino Real between St Augustine and Mission St Louis Cimarrone literally means feral meaning wild or unruly The Language Problem Continued Musucogean speakers have no trilled rr sound So Cimarrones slowly becames Cimallones which by the early 19 century had become Seminoles 1492 the colonial ear begins New group of very mobile adaptive and diverse peoples begin arriving by sea from a strange place called Europe The English Mobility Adaptability fishing tobacco sugar farms Diversity Lag Not really Religion Protestants puritans and angliscans o Catholics Other Folkways regional origin class and social status Where they are diverse compared to the Native Americans No Intervention Why then has it taken so long for Europeans and their American descendants to abandon the notion that America s Native peoples were peoples without history that they were passive immobile and essentially uniform Meeting of English and Indians 1620 pilgrims came to America bringing sicknesses 12 000 to 2 000 Western What did Europeans encounter in North America The aftermath of Epidemic the aftermath of the disator What did the English think they found in North America Diseases killed not only the sick but children everyone Not a lot of food Empty villages What had they actually found Societies in the midst of colossal demographic catasphic Why did these Others come to America 1 Pushes Domestic factors driving Englishmen into the wider world 1550 1600 The English Population Doubles 2 5 5 mm population of Chicago at 5 mm Whats the problem with this Isn t an expanding society a healthy society It is when that society is expanding in other ways economically for insurance The problem in England population is growing but in other ways the society is quite stagnant This is a pre capitalist age Innovation and economic expansion the kids of processes that could generate well being for a rapidly expanding population are happening at a slower rate than population growth Some of the bad things that happened when population expands more rapidly than the economy o More people competing for fixed resources results more prices Inflation raise reduction in real wages 2 Economic Change The enclosures moarch allows lan owners to tranform agricultural land into pasture land enclosure to denote the fenced in nature Why did the English monarchs do this Its all about The English monarchs had very little money so of course they wanted money But whats good for the Queen may not be good for everyone else What did the enclosures do Drove large numbers of peasants from the land Cotiers a new class of landless peasants o Named for the cots they carried around with team Consequences more and more people and little expansion od resources high prices less work and guess what Social Problems Crime Vagrancy Idleness Revolt Richard Hakluyt 1584 3rd Push Religious Conflict Puritans Protestant reformation an on going process in 16th and 17th English PULLLS 1 the global contest for Christianity Spain the dominant world power is a Catholic empire The Real is the dominant currency of Europe Catholics are getting rich bys armys builds empower themselves o
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