Transcript The Worlds of the 15th Century

The Worlds of the 15th Century
All types of human societies were
still around.
I. Paleolithic Persistence
• Gathering/hunting societies
1. All of Australia
2. Most of Siberia
3. Arctic coastlands
4. Parts of Africa/Americas
(had changed over time and interacted with
neighbors)
Australia
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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
Firestick farming lecture
Youtube
khanacademy
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
3 examples from present day So.
Nigeria
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Yoruba people
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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
Yoruba
Common characteristics of
Nigerian societies
• Traded among themselves and beyond
• Shared artistic traditions
• Moved from matrilineal to partilineal
system
III. Herding People or
Pastorialists
• Turkic society
• West Africa’s Fulbe society (largest ex)
Turkic
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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
Tamerlane