They farmed such plants as squash, beans, guava and mostly fished shellfish, sardines and anchovies (2). This is why most of these sites to do with the Norte Chico can be found in costal Peru. The Norte Chico also built large monumental structures such as aqueducts (2). The Norte Chico also unlike the rest of the pre-historic sites we find do not have ceramics or any evidence of
The Pan-American Highway Project recently unearthed a bunch of old bones, which were initially found by construction workers. The bones were turned over to scientists, who discovered that the large bones were part of the skeletons of over 40 marine animals. The bones belonged to animals like seals, aquatic sloths, and even an extinct species of sperm whales. These creatures are thought to have been killed off nearly 10,000 years ago.
The United States is in the northern hemisphere and Peru is in the southern hemisphere. Not only are they in different hemispheres but they are hugely different sizes. The U.S. is 9,833,517 km2 dwarfing Peru, which is at 1, 285, 261 km2. Their populations per km2 are fairly close but that’s because Peru is smaller, however the total populations are vastly different with the U.S. being 321 million and Peru’s at 31.4 million. Peru and The United States are definitely very different places but they do have a number of geographic similarities.
The Inca Empire, flourishing from 1438 to 1533 was the largest and the most advanced empire in South America and the largest in the world during that time. The empire conquered land all the way from southern Columbia to central Chile during its powerful zoetic. The Inca Empire was highly advanced during the post classical period because of the many discoveries and developments in agriculture, mathematics, science, architecture, and how they used ancestral worship as a way to gain land.
In Mesoamerica, many civilizations appeared up to the 1500’s. Two of these civilizations included the Aztecs and the Incas. Although these two cultures were close geographically, they were not completely similar. The Aztecs and Incas had different religion, politics, and culture.
The progression of civilization since the 900’s leaves archaeologists and historians with questions such as, why did societies decide to domesticate crops or why did society abandon the hunter gather lifestyle? There are many hypothesis for the origins of agriculture like the social hypothesis that claims the success of food production allowed individuals to create surplus which gave them the ability to trade for valuable goods. This surplus also provided individuals with power and the leaders could acquire a labor force that would help them gather and create more surplus. The hunter gather lifestyle had its advantages as well. Hunter gathers had a seasonal routine and did not have to rely on someone to provide them with food.
Today I will be sharing and comparing the similarities and differences between the Aztec empire and the Inca empire. Although the tribes came from different locations and don’t have much in common, they do have different things that make them alike, such as the fact that they both have important events that occur around the same time and that they both eat some of the same foods. These two empires are very different as well, but most tribes and empires are. Today I will be comparing the similarities between the Inca and Aztec empire. The three main crops that the Inca grew were ones that contained cocoa beans, beans, and vegetables.
Pedro Lopez , also known as “The Monster of the Andes”, was born on October 8, 1949 in Tolima, Colombia. He was known for being a serial killer for murdering about one hundred ten to three hundred young girls, and a rapist for raping about three hundred young girls in South America. He was also in the Guinness World Records for being the "most prolific serial killer". His mother, Benilda López De Casteneda, was a prostitute at about the age of twelve and his father, Midardo Reyes, was a member of the Colombian Conservative Party (something dealing with politics) where they lived in poverty and political violence. Lopez was the seventh child out of thirteen children.
The Native Amazonians want the government to make us the legal owners of our homelands so we can live where we belong, on our own land. Our people have lived in these forests for 12,000 years, and our use of the land and its resources is sustainable. Although some Native Amazonian people live much as we do, others still live much as did their ancestors 12 thousand of years before them. These communities organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Their food, medicines and clothing come primarily from the forest.
72 days in the Andes no food, nothing. I read the book Miracle in the Andes, written by , Nando Parrado. Nando Parrado plays for a rugby team and he and his team go on a trip to play a game. The pilot says there is bad weather, but Nando and his friends start calling the pilot names, so the pilot listens and flies them to their game. But, they did not make it to their game.
When the settlers went to start up the agricultural industry in the rural areas of Latin America, there was obviously a smaller population of both natives and Europeans in that region. Colonisers needed workers and locals needed work; both parties had no choice but to interact with one another. Ortiz states that everybody was “snatched from their original social groups, their own cultures destroyed and crushed under the weight of the cultures in existence here” (Ortiz 1947: 98). As the Europeans needed to raise funds in order to pay for their transportation costs from home, they required gold, silver and sugar for export. For the workers gathering these resources, the indigenous people supplied them food and clothes.
The intended audience of the article “ The Columbian Exchange- a History of Disease, Food and Ideas” are scholars and students. The article has large amount of statistics provided about the amount of production of certain foods in certain countries, the amount of exchange between the old world and the new world and the top consuming countries for various new world foods. The foods discovered also includes their benefits and harms. 2. The author’s main argument is that the new world has several impacts on the old world which includes many pros and cons.
Over the years, history has been manipulated for people to have a limited knowledge of the actual events. For Example the history of the indigenous people in Mesoamerica which has been misinterpreted with many myths portraying them as heartless and evil people. In reality these indigenous people were incredible and clever to the point that they build a “perfect empire” in what today is part of Mexico and Central America. The cultural and life integration was based on three essential processes worldmaking, worldcentering and worldrenewing.
NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIETIES: 1. Both civilizations were made up of bloodthirsty savages. A difference between the two is that the Mesoamericans were cannibals and the Mississippians buried their dead in mounds. 2. They lived in agricultural societies so if it was too hot or cold or they did not get enough rain fall, then their crops could not grow.
As far as I know, the Inca culture prevailed up to the beginning of the sixteenth century --- by then, tubers and roots like potatoes and oca had a central role, along with cereals like quinoa and maize, legumes like tarwi (a native variety of lupin beans), plants like maca, and fruit like banana, avocado, papaya, plums and pineapple. Chilies were highly valued. Inca gastronomy also included dishes made out of algae that were eaten either fresh or dried. P: How about meat and fish, were they not a part of the Incas’ gastronomic traditions? DM: The most common were guinea pig meat and llama meat, as well as dried fish (like rays, small sharks and bonito).
