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Period: 15,000 BCE to
Beginnings to Exploration
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1200 BCE
Olmecs Bloodletting
The Omlecs practiced bloodletting which was the practice of cutting or piercing oneself that showed ones ideological or cultural functions. This could be seen as a religious method to show their loyalty to their God(s) -
1200 BCE
Pueblo/Anasazi
The ancient pueblo were Native Americans that were also called the Anasazi. These people lived in multi-story villages made of adobe. The Anasazi people were subsistence farmers that just made enough to survive and thrive. The Puebloans had textiles and were traditional weavers of cloth in which they wore dresses for the women and breech cloth for men. -
800
Dark ages Feudalism
Feudalism started around the ninth century which was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. Feudalism is very similar to the caste system of multiple religions and cultures except you could change which part of the Feudal system you belong do unlike caste systems where you are born into certain castes and are unable to get out of them. -
1300
Aztecs Sacrifice
Very similar to Olmec bloodletting The Aztecs would sacrifice people to the gods in an attempt to good weather for farming, a good harvest, or to prove themselves as very religious. Whenever there were droughts or bad weather they would think that it was the gods punishing them so they would sacrifice someone to appease the gods. This was done in a very ceremonial matter. -
1347
The Black Death
The Black Death also known as the Bubonic Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the death of 75 million to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351 killing 50 million in Europe alone. Unlike popular belief rats were not the cause of the plague it was the fleas on the rats and some people blamed Jews for contaminating the waterways -
1440
The renaissance Printing Press
The printing press was a very innovative product made during the renaissance it allowed for books and texts and all knowledge to be mass produced and make quicker. the person who made this in Europe was Johannes Gutenburg which he made by adapting the existing technologies around him to make a printing press. This very revolutionary invention took several decades to spread to around 200 countries in European countries. They soon became necessities in countries that wanted knowledge and power. -
1500
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, ideas, technology, and diseases. The exchange was just that it wasn't a trade the people from the old world came to the new world took animals plants and culture in certain ways and just gave them diseases and sicknesses that the natives had no immunity against them so they ended up dying from these diseases that were like nothing to the people of the old world. -
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English Colonial Societies
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New England Colonies Squanto
Squanto was a part of the Patuxet which was between southern New England the Mayflower Pilgrims. In 1614 he was kidnapped by Thomas Hunt brought to Spain and sold off into slavery. Soon after escaped and went back to the Colonies which he found his tribe dead killed by an infectious disease. In 1620 when the mayflower landed he helped negotiate peaceful relations with them and the Pokanokets. For then next 20 or so months he helped the pilgrims acting as a translator, a guide, and adviser. -
Salem Witch trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of the people that were accused of witchcraft. There isn't an EXACT reason as to why people were accused of witchcraft but some say it was because they saw the peoples mental health as witchcraft and others because they say "god has told me they are a witch." The methods of proving you were not a witch were to not survive the execution in which you lose your life. If you did survive you were proven a witch and then were burned. -
Chesapeake Colonies Tobacco
The leading cash crop in the Chesapeake colonies was tobacco which they sold to European colonies and Africans to make a majority of their economy. The demand for tobacco also caused a demand for more slaves which in turn helped produce more tobacco which gave them more reason to get more slaves. Cultivating tobacco was kind of seen like an art every buyer understood the effort and meticulous planning that went behind cultivating the tobacco so there was that much more meaning behind tobacco. -
Caribbean Colonies Sugar
Sugar cane being one of the most profitable crops in the Caribbean was a major thing for colonizers. They colonized the Caribbean and started slavery to make quick and easy money. Sugar was practically as profitable as gold but easier to obtain. One would incorporate slavery into making these crops and cultivating them and the owner/master would just have to watch over the slaves and export the sugar. The old world would soon come and take raw sugar cane to cultivate and produce for themselves.
