LAIS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cochineal

• School: UCSB
• Department: Latin American and Iberian Studies
• Course: LAIS 10
• Professor: Hugo Santo Gomez

Document Summary

Corn, potatoes, etc. to feed emerging cities in latin america. Mountains - key survival places; areas of refuge during colonial times. Homosapiens migration to america btwn 15,000 -- 40,000 years ago. Multiple migrations but not enough archaeological information to support these claims. Agricultural revolution: domesticating plants and being able to produce what we need in terms of food. Small experiments taking place leading to full domestication (1,500 - 7,000 years ago) Not all poverty, but not all prospering nations either. Purchasing power not as competitive with rest of the world. Brazil is leader in gdp for latin america (#8 in the world), above uk. Wanted to promote development beyond the coast of brazil and develop inside the jungles. Incas, aztecs, chibchas, mayas were the most significant groups in latin. No more than 200 years of expanded rule. Not really the basis of mexican history as they are painted to be (especially in central mexico)