Isolation or Interaction? Americas and Oceania

I. Themes:

• Worldviews and environment.
• Isolations or interactions?

II. Environments:

• Americas – diversity
• North America (Climates)
• Southwest (*) (*)
• Northeast
• Plains (*)
• Mesoamerica
• Chinampas (*)
• South America
• Animal domestication (*)
• Oceania
• Islands(*)
• Fishponds

III. Cultures and Complex Societies

• Aztecs (13^th-16^th Century)
• Tenochtitlan (*)
• Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli
• Poetry
• Inca (13^th -16^th Century)
• Cuzco
• Machu Picchu (*)
• Quipu
• Oceania (*)
• Pohnpei, Tonga, Hawai‘i, Tahiti (map)

IV. Isolation or Interaction?

• Cahokia (*) (mound)
• Inca (map) (roads)
• Rapa Nui (*)
• Hawai‘i and Tahiti
• (2-way voyaging)

V. Conclusions

• Fit within world history
• Comparisons
• Classes next semester:
• Oceania: PACS 108 Pacific Worlds, PACS 202 Oceania on the Move
• LLEA 372 Andean South America
• HIST 152 World History 1500 to Present