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WHO CIVILIZED WHO?

Europeans Discover the New World. WHO CIVILIZED WHO?. CIVILIZATION DEFINITION.

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WHO CIVILIZED WHO?

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  1. Europeans Discover the New World WHO CIVILIZED WHO?

  2. CIVILIZATION DEFINITION • An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.

  3. Did Europeans Bring Civilization? • What did civilizations have in common? • Water • Religion • Social Hierarchy • Did Europeans bring civilization to the Native Americans?

  4. Did Europeans Bring Civilization • No – they already were civilized just in a different way

  5. Civilizations Throughout the World • Each area has own stories of origin • Most tie to their religious beliefs • Have religious symbols • Have burial ceremonies • Have Monuments • Have Governments – city states/kings

  6. Examine the Picture

  7. Civilizations Throughout the World • Have defense – fortresses • Have class system – division of labor(who does what and why)

  8. So why do some think Europeans were civilized and Native Americans were not? • Europeans were the main generators of written history • Tend to focus on that point of view • Forget about Native History • New World vs Old World mentality

  9. Why did Europeans think they were so good? • Ego/Ethnocentric – Our ways are better

  10. Stories of Origin • Great Lakes – came from the water on the back of a turtle • Great Plains – children of the sun and the moon • Southwest – from the ground • Christianity – from the dust of the earth – story of Adam and Eve from the rib of Adam

  11. Stories of Origin • Who’s story is more civilized? • Or does it have more to do with what you know and are comfortable with?

  12. Iroquois Creation Myth • Partner with someone you have not worked with yet • Read the creation story • How would you compare this to your personal belief of creation?

  13. Differences of the New World and Old World • New World Old World • Native Americans Europeans • Isolated Traveled • Did not mix with Mixed with other cultures cultures • 95% of Western All blood types Hemisphere Had Type O Blood

  14. What does blood type have to do with this? • Two Continents on the Western Hemisphere with millions of people of the same blood type • Besides blood type what do they all have in common? • 1 genetic group • Same natural immunities • NO NATURAL IMMUNITIES TO EUROPEAN DISEASES THEY HAVE NOT BEEN EXPOSED TO

  15. Columbian Exchange

  16. No Immunities = Death • Estimate population of continental US pre- Columbus range from 1.5 million to 18 million • 7-9 million probably more accurate • Europeans arrive = millions of Native Americans die of Small Pox generation after generation

  17. No Immunities= Death • 1492 - don’t colonize until 1607 a tremendous amount of death has occurred in the Native American groups prior to colonization

  18. Did Europeans get sick from Native American diseases? • A theory • 1493 1st cases of syphilis appeared in Europe • Open sores, paralysis, infertility

  19. Resources • R. David Edmunds, University of Texas-Dallas • Wikipedia • Dictionary.com • www.tea.state.tx.us/.../ grade10/ss/p73no5.gif • http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhd/img/gd/image12g.jpg • http://www.zkea.com/images/smallpox-adult.jpg • http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/images/bloodtypes.jpg • http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/00080/00080294.jpg • http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/archaeol/arm-mura.jpg • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound • http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/statpopulation.gif • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/statpopulation.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/US.html&h=400&w=466&sz=13&tbnid=QLtOsFoQ_HMJ:&tbnh=107&tbnw=125&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnative%2Bamerican%2Btribe%2BUS%2Bmap%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

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