CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Rhodes Scholarship, Great Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa
10 Sep 2017
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1400 bce 1250 (poverty point cahokia) Between columbus (1492) and the first settlement in usa (jamestown, 1607), many explorers mapping midwest. Came to abandoned native american ruins, including mounds. Benjamin smith barton: 1700s botanist/ naturalist and physician from pennsylvania, 1787 observations on some parts of natural history. Attributes mounds to the vikings because they had ships and travelled around the world: 1797 admits they were built by native americans. Joseph smiths: founder of mormonism (type of protestant christianity, 1830 book of mormon. Attributes mounds to jaredeites (according to the book of mormon, the people fled across the ocean on unique barges and established an ancient civilization in the americas) Ephraim george squire & edwin hamilton davis: 1848 ancient monuments of mississippi valley, first publication of the smithsonian institute. 73: said the moundbuilders were a separate race and were eventually killed by the.
