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The Worlds of the 15th Century
  • All types of human societies were still around.

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I. Paleolithic Persistence
  • Gathering/hunting societies
  • All of Australia
  • Most of Siberia
  • Arctic coastlands
  • Parts of Africa/Americas
  • (had changed over time and interacted with
    neighbors)

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Australia
  • 250 separate groups
  • Assimilated outside ideas
  • Outrigger canoes, fish hooks/nets
  • Artistic styles/rituals/mythological concepts
  • Had not adopted agriculture
  • firestick farming
  • Exchanges of goods over 100s miles

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Firestick farming lecture Youtube khanacademy
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II. Agricultural Village Societies
  • Much of No. America
  • Africa south of equator
  • Parts of Amazon River basin
  • So. East Asia
  • ---these mostly avoided oppressive authority,
    class inequalities and seclusion of women

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3 examples from present day So. Nigeria
  • Yoruba people
  • City-states with king (oba)
  • Many oba were women
  • Performed religious and political functions
  • Benin
  • Centralized state ruled by warrior king (Ewuare)
  • Igbo
  • Dense population but no kingship or state
    building

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Yoruba
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Common characteristics of Nigerian societies
  • Traded among themselves and beyond
  • Shared artistic traditions
  • Moved from matrilineal to partilineal system

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III. Herding People or Pastorialists
  • Turkic society
  • West Africas Fulbe society (largest ex)

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Turkic
  • Warrior Timur (Tamerlane)
  • Wanted to restore Mongol Empire
  • Ca. 1400
  • Army devastated Russia, Persia, India
  • 1405 he died while preparing to invade China
  • Sucessors kept Persia and Afghanistan for a
    century
  • Last great military success of C. Asian nomads

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Tamerlane
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