HIST 2055 : Quiz 1 Notes
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Questions: what"s in a name, names for native people: Essentially a giant church where a lot of people also lived. Around 50,000 people lived there: anasazi- cliff dwellers , beliefs: generally speaking: Everything in this world was a representation of a more perfect world. Mimacs-far northeastern canada, believed that a boar"s blood could not touch the ground after it had been killed. Bones were always buried; given back to where they came from". Always wore hunted fur, it never went onto the ground. Seen as the basic threshold between them and the spiritual world. Like talking to god during dream and then after: trying to understand it: men usually govern: chief figure was rare, it was organized around a council of men, farming: 3 main crops: corn (maze, squash, beans. Lecture 2 notes: europe in 1491, in the wake of the plague. Came from fleas (hun) on dogs/pigs (lived in houses)
