HIST 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Persian Pottery, Dominate, Great Zimbabwe
11 Nov 2017
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Midterm questions on canvas to be written on a separate doc and submitted. Regular and known current systems: monsoon system. Influencing the local culture and how they accommodate visitor. 2500km but does not extend inland very much. Various linguistics and art along the coast. Historical - architecture; culture, language = arab. Current - local culture and language; adopted islam, some foreign words, imported wares. Exogenous: relating to or developing from external factors. Take a mosque and dig underneath (cid:314) mosques underneath dating back up to. Bottom up event and not across all of society. Elements of the community adopted islam gradually. Greek texts by 100 ad (anon, periplus maris erythreae) Not much evidence of grain cultivation or iron usage. Iron age sites: bantu populations here by 2000 bp. Rice has many different words (cooked, uncooked, etc) Book - if illiterate then the concept must be coming from outside. Computer - sounds similar to our version of computer.
