HIST 151 Lecture Notes - First Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Concubinage
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Week 2: origins, origin stories and indigenous histories. New world (canada): circular way of thinking: interconnectedness, cycles, develop through situations, matricentric: privilege of the woman, tracing family lineage through the mother, large say in government. People of the saskatchewan region: algonquian, athabaskan, siouan. 100 million people in americas, 10 million above mexico. Land bridges and midcontinental route (land bridge of asia) Ocean voyages along the pacific and atlantic coasts. Multiple ways people got into americas; changed throughout the years. Push factors: keeping them in the old world: lack of resources, environmental stress (drought, overpopulation, warfare. Pull factors: bringing them to the new world: better and newer resources, economic trade, curiosity, prestige (columbus) Matricentric; mother centered, women have a central place. Many trade routes, very complicated; young street is most ancient trade route. Focusing on water ways (rivers), the authority over water was very important (st. lawrence.
