Unit One (8000 BCE to 600 CE)
Unit One (8000 BCE to 600 BCE)
- Olmecs (c. 1500 BCE)
o Gulf of Mexico; major cities of San Lorenzo and La Venta
o Masks and figures out of jade
o Social status indicated by elaborate -ness of dress and decoration
o Colossal Heads
- Andean Heartland
o Cultivation of beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes c. 2500 BCE
o Chavin religious cult (c. 1000 BCE)
Unit Two (600 BCE to 600 CE)
- Maya (c. 300 to 900)
Unit Three (600 to 1450)
- Maya (c. 300 to 900)
o Yucatan in SE Mexico
o Agricultural economy, temples and pyramids, ritualistic polytheism, independent city-states linked by trade
- Aztec (c.1400 to 1521)
o Militant warriors, rule by severe despots, priestly class w/ ritualistic human sacrifice, cacao beans as currency, decentralized network of city-states that pay tribute
- Inca (c. 1400 to 1540)
o South American Andes mountains
o Centralized empire w/ capital at Cuzco, irrigated agricultural economy, polytheistic w/ worship of sun, patriarchal w/ few women’s rights, ancestors worshipped, no written language
Unit Four (1450 to 1750)
- Columbian Exchange: diffusion of food crops and animals
Spanish Empire
- Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
- Hernan Cortes 1519: conquered Tenochtitlan and Aztecs led by Montezuma
- Francisco Pizarro 1531: defeats Incas w/ disease & superior weapons
- Encomienda System
- Social structure based on race: peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, natives
- Plantation system reliant of African slaves
- Missionaries spread Christianity
Portuguese in Brazil
British and French in North America
Unit Five (1750 to 1900)
- American Revolution 1776-1783
o Declaration of Independence: Enlightenment ideals of equality and natural rights
o U.S. Constitution 1789
- Haitian Revolution: slave revolt
- Latin American Wars for Independence
o San Martin and Bolivar
- Industrialization
- Spanish-American War 1898
o US becomes world power w/ acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines
Unit Six (1900 to present)
- Mexican Revolution (1910-1917)
o 1910 Civil War led by mestizos wanting to break Creole control
o Carranza president in 1916
o Constitution of 1917: land reform, restrictions on foreign control, workers rights
- WWI
o US remains neutral until unrestricted German U-boat war
o Woodrow Wilson and Fourteen Points
o Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
- 19th Amendment: Women vote!
- Great Depression and Stock Market crash of 1929
- WWII
o Pearl Harbor
o Use of atomic bomb on Japan
o United Nations formed
o US emerges a world power
- Cold War (1945-1989)
o Ideologies at war: communism v. capitalism
o Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and NATO
o Arms race, space race
o Korean War (1950-1953)
o Vietnam War (1965-1975)
- Cuba: Castro comes to power in 1959
o Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- Sept. 11, 2001 and War in the Gulf
- “McDonaldization”
Social, cultural, economic, and political patterns in the Amerindian world
|Amerindian civilizations |Economic |Cultural Religious Architectural|Gender Roles |Political Structure; Reason for |
| | | | |Collapse |
|Maya |agricultural trade craftwork in |mathematics astronomy medicine |patriarchy |city-states diverse explanations|
| |jade |pyramids hieroglyphic writing | |for causes: environmental: |
| | | | |overuse of resources; warfare |
|Aztec |mercenaries war provided slaves |human sacrifice capital - |patriarchy |emperor rigid class system |
| | |Tenochtitlan | |tributary states lack of |
| | | | |immunity to AfroEurasian |
| | | | |diseases like smallpox tributary|
| | | | |states allied with Spanish |
|Inca |agricultural inherited array of |quipu for record keeping |patriarchy |dynastic emperor rigid class |
| |domesticated plants and animals,|textiles important for religious| |system lack of immunity to Afro |
| |e.g. potatoes, quinoa, guinea |ceremonies | |Eurasian diseases like smallpox |
| |pigs trade tribute roads | | |tributary states allied with |
| | | | |Spanish |
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