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Indigenous Cultures and Early Exploration

The document outlines the historical emergence of various Native American cultures, including the Kiowa, Maya, Aztec, and Inca, highlighting their origins, societal structures, and significant events. It also discusses the impact of European exploration and conquest, particularly focusing on the Spanish interactions with indigenous peoples. Additionally, it touches on the Columbian Exchange and the contributions of figures like Christopher Columbus and Hernando De Soto.

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Indigenous Cultures and Early Exploration

The document outlines the historical emergence of various Native American cultures, including the Kiowa, Maya, Aztec, and Inca, highlighting their origins, societal structures, and significant events. It also discusses the impact of European exploration and conquest, particularly focusing on the Spanish interactions with indigenous peoples. Additionally, it touches on the Columbian Exchange and the contributions of figures like Christopher Columbus and Hernando De Soto.

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New World

Dr. Jahue Anderson


U.S. History to 1877
Johannes Stradanus, "Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America,” (c. 1575-1580)
Kiowa Emergence Tale
You know, everything had to begin, and this is how
it was: the Kiowas came one by one into the world
through a hollow log. There were many more than
now, but not all of them got out. There was a
woman whose body was swollen up with child, and
she got stuck in the log. After that, no one could get
through, and that is why the Kiowas are a small
tribe in number. They looked all around and saw the
world. It made them glad to see so many things.
They called themselves Kwuda, "coming out."
Twenty thousand years ago, ice sheets, some a mile thick, extended across North
America. Between twelve and twenty thousand years ago, the First People crossed the
ice, waters, and exposed lands between the continents of Asia and America.
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán) in Chichén Itzá. Photograph by Daniel Schwen.
Mayan culture developed in Mesoamerica between 250 and 900 CE.
Mayan Glyphs
The Mayan empire began to decline after the fall of Teotihuacan in 550 CE.
Temple at Tikal (Guatemala)
Lady K'abal Xook pulling a thorned rope through her tongue
(detail), Yaxchilán lintel 24, after 709 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period,
limestone, 109 x 78 x 6 cm, Mexico
The Aztecs, who called themselves Mexíca, lived in the central part of Mexico in the 14th
through 16th centuries, building an extensive empire around their capital. This sixteenth-century
map of Tenochtitlan shows the aesthetic beauty and advanced infrastructure of this great Aztec
city. Map, c. 1524.
chinampas
chinampas
Aztec Sun Stone, at National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, Mexico.
Florentine Codex
The Spanish relied on indigenous allies to defeat the Aztecs. The Tlaxcala were among the most
important Spanish allies in their conquest. This nineteenth-century recreation of a sixteenth
century drawing depicts Tlaxcalan warriors fighting alongside Spanish soldiers against the Aztec
Inca Empire
Quechua Peoples
Inca Quipu
“Talking Knots”
Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains
The Incas or Quechua People
An artist’s rendering of Cahokia as it may have appeared in 1150 CE. Prepared by Bill Isminger
and Mark Esarey with artwork by Greg Harlin.
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Anasazi Kivas
“Detail of A map of Virginia of
1612, showing Powhatan in the
royal wigwam. He wears a crown
of feathers,” 1624.
“Johannes Lerii's account of Caraibes Indians with rattles dancing and smoking pipes,” 1593.
Library of Congress
Mandioka root being prepared by Indian women to produce a liquid brew. This makes the tribesmen drunk,
1593. Library of Congress
Photo shows the longboat Viking, a replica of the Gokstad, which arrived in New York City in
June 1893 before going to the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Built in Norway, the
Viking was sailed across the Atlantic to demonstrate that Leif Erikson could have reached
Vinland ca. 1000.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Astrolabe
• Posthumous
portrait of
Christopher
Columbus by
Ridolfo
Ghirlandio
Queen Isabella I of Castille King Ferdinand II of Aragon
Hernando De Soto Expedition
The Columbian Exchange

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