GLST 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morphophonology, Staple Food, Teotihuacan
29 Sep 2016
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Regional kingdoms no written language except latin imports a. Primitive agriculture and hunting: gods and rituals to deal with naturea. Christianity truly unite: central america olmec civilization more advanced than. Corn staple food crop, but few domesticated animals2. Olmec culture: artistic forms jadeb. religious images animals and humans c. science accurate calendars, successors made teotihuacan great city, later taken over by maya . Peru/bolivia isolation form world couldn"t copy and react: no wheel, iron, advanced civilization agriculture to city f. polynesian peoples . Fiji by 1000 bce, hawaii 400 ce: great travelers/explorers, adapted local plants, brought in new animals, imported caste system under kings g. central asia played central role in trade, invention of stirrup2. Important contacts between civilizations 3. herding groups invaded civilizations. 200-600 ce all three start to decline: outside invasion nomadic growth huns a. huns realized weakness of regime, internal problemsb. Han dynasty population growth/prosperity spiral down: confucian intellectual activity less active 2.
