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| Why are archeological investigations important with respect to documentation of the exploration and settlement of North America? |
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Definition
| European perspective is overrepresented. Native American underrepresented historically. |
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| Why where there no New World counterparts for European diseases? |
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Definition
| Lack of shared quarters with domesticated animals. |
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| What role did infection diseases play in the decline of Indian population based on Dobyn's theory? |
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Definition
| Population declines preceded Euro influx by decades from diseases acquired through trade. |
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| Main objective of text-aided (historic) archeology? |
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Definition
| To supplement and balance the historical record. |
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| What is a wampum? What did it represent to the Iroquois? What part did it play in interactions with Europeans? |
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Definition
| A shell bead belt. Shell=power, life enhancing and restoring. Used to console surviving family of the deceased. Used in diplomacy with Europeans and as trade currency. |
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| Three sources of data used to study the period of European contact |
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Definition
| Ethnographic accounts, archeological investigations, and historical records. |
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| Long term consequences of Hernando de Soto's foray through the southeast in 1539-1543? |
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Definition
| Disease and depopulation. Population decimation. Political and social change. Population and traditions lost. Euro trade goods undermined native crafts. |
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| Differences in Indian interactions with Hispanic-American and Anglo-Americans? |
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Definition
Spanish intermarried. Subjugation through religious conversion.
British - trade, warfare, slavery, servitude. |
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| What does historic archeology do best? |
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Definition
| Documents daily lives of ordinary people. |
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| Important insights regarding plantation life of slaves from archeology? |
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Definition
| Forms of resistance - ritual caches. Stratification of slaves. Slave owned weapons. |
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