Richard Bulliet - History of the World to 1500 CE (Session 19) - Civilization of the Americas

Topic: Peoples and Civilization of the Americas, 200-1500 Part II
Speaker: Richard Bulliet
Date: 11/11/2010
Course number: W3902
Course title: World History to 1500 CE
School: Columbia College
Session 19 (11/11/10)
This lecture is on the history of human sacrifice.

[@DionelvanThen]

The last thirty minutes of this lecture were golden to say the least, thank you professor.

[@uiPublic]

Speaks Who Author Sacrifices as Unblemished Lambs for the Killers, Cause and Target When Forgiven Go Ahead Accuse Yet Another Make Killing out of It?!

[@fhoofe3245]

12:00 "begs the question" incorrect meaning

[@driteroj]

they sacrificed chickens with a dark skin .. "racist attitude towards chicken" lol

[@driteroj]

such great sense of humor going unappreciated in this class,

[@mackenziemoyer8437]

If you’d like to learn more about the Americas, I’d suggest two books: “1491” and “Stolen Continents.” The Mississippians, the Iroquois, the likeliness of an Amazonian civilization: all of these are covered. This history is of equal weight, to my mind, of the entirety of Eurasia and Africa. Why? Because it allows us to properly test hypothesis with very different contexts (as Professor Bulliet does with the whole temperate-vs-tropical debate. It’s not only, for instance, that we all already have at least some idea of Egypt and none of the First Nations, but also that we can understand the Egyptian pyramids better by understanding the mound cultures of North America.

[@InfiniteUniverse88]

Ritual sacrifice transformed into the execution of criminals. Both aim to deal with the problem of overpopulation. One of the texts that depicts elaborate ceremonies with a lot of fanfare for the execution of criminals is the Mahabharata. Even today, the practice of execution still takes place in much of the world. There's a certain jubilance on the part of the part of the public viewing the execution. Only in most recent times has a significant portion of the globe outgrown this primitive ritual.

[@mackenziemoyer8437]

InfiniteUniverse88 that is a hypothesis. What is the evidence?