Topic: Peoples and Civilization of the Americas, 200-1500 Part I Speaker: Richard Bulliet Date: 11/9/2010 Course number: W3902 Course title: World History to 1500 CE School: Columbia College Session 18 (11/9/10)
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@marywaterstone56389 жыл бұрын
So happy I found this series. I always learn something from his lectures. Would have enjoyed the class as student at Columbia having available the reading material and the break out sessions with the TAs for discussion. Don't let the negative comments dissuade you from listening.
@mackenziemoyer84375 жыл бұрын
Mary Waterstone I agree. He’s very knowledgeable and funny, and discussions in seminars would be fun to attend. I’m probably going to rematch this series a few times. Definitely picking up the textbook as well.
@mackenziemoyer84375 жыл бұрын
Still loving this series. I now have the rhythm of the outside world of this class: about 3/4 of the way through, sirens. About 1/4 of the way through, clicking heels and a crowd of people.
8 жыл бұрын
The Aztecs and Mayans were a fair distance outside of the equatorial zones. The Inca were the closest but escaped the equatorial heat due to the altitude of the mountains. It was downright cold at Machu Picchu. There is something to the theory because in the tropics the heat just sucks all the energy out of you. No way you are keen on building cities when in that heat. Another thing I noticed, the lazy factor in humans increases when in the heat.
@mackenziemoyer84375 жыл бұрын
Beijing yank the Inca were preceded by peoples that lived on the coast and in river valleys near the coast.
@KateeAngel11 жыл бұрын
1:05:40 Really I don't think that humans all over the world through all the thousands of years found the idea that one species can turn into another as impossible as Chistians found it. Ancient mythologies, many of them, say for example, something like: "our tribe descent from bears, their tribe descend from wolves" etc. Maybe ancient people with polytheistic myths didnt really found what we now call evolution as impossible as later people who had monotheistic religions
@AlJalandhari7 жыл бұрын
Kate S actually early monotheistic Muslim writers like Al Jahiz and Ibn Khaldun also put forward theories of evolution
@BluJean66923 жыл бұрын
The ancient Mesopotamians attributed the emergence of life from "primordial mud" with minimal divine structuring, likewise as Mr. Bulliet points out in an earlier lecture there was a chinese creation myth involving the earth being the corpse of Pan-Gu and all living things descended from his parasites and lice and such...
@mackenziemoyer84375 жыл бұрын
The Andean coastal people farmed for cotton which they used for fishing nets. This hints at the necessity for social complexity to glean resources from the environment, and is a wholly novel compared to other centres where agriculture arose in that unlike other places, in the Andes coastal region agriculture wasn’t based on calorie-rich food stuffs. Similar to one of the previous classes, where getting mills necessitated complex mills in Europe but simple animal based mills in the arid regions of Eurasia. The other issue facing peoples in Eurasia was nomadic horse-riding peoples. For instance, Old European societies were based in river valleys but seem to have built fortifications to defend against horse rider incursions. The competition between peoples themselves seems to have been a factor. Something similar happens in Mesopotamia: environmental degradation and the necessity of irrigation practices (which themselves led to degradation in the form of salination) necessitated more complex social adaptations such as centralization.
@KateeAngel11 жыл бұрын
Well, if say more about extinction of big mammals - what I always see as mistake in that debate is that people ignore differences between different soecirs
@KateeAngel11 жыл бұрын
21:30 Well, really non-human species can actually pass skills to offsprings through cultural means. But it's not the direct teaching, it's imitation. Offsprings watch behavior of parents and simply imitate it. That animals cannot say something to their offsprings, doesn't mean that offspring cannot imitate
@josephtabler94896 жыл бұрын
Seems to me that every teacher/instructor/professor I have heard.....has a bit of arrogance. :>) Always like to listen to people who 'Know' something of what they are talking about. I liked his distinction between historian, archeologist, and anthropologists. He's done a lot of teaching, researching, reading.....last lecture he told about cataloguing rare coins.....he knows a lot!
@CYRBOGZIN2 ай бұрын
30 mim
@angelahall80952 жыл бұрын
You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do
@4meloche4 ай бұрын
Great!
@NikolaYordanov3575 жыл бұрын
I have also read about domestication of foxes in Siberia well ove r 40 years - USSR and later. The DID change - adrenalin, ears, shape of face, etc. Even the color of the fur!
@dailymchugher160410 жыл бұрын
it seems to me that fear of humans most definitely can be passed on to generations, as human-fearing animals are more likely to survive. when backbacking in the Sierra Nevada, I discovered that swatting flies was very easy, whereas back in SanFrancisco it was quite difficult. In the city, flies who are natually skittish are the ones that pass along their genes.
@InfiniteUniverse887 жыл бұрын
There were a lot more rivers than the one's the first river valley civilizations inhabited.
@BabelRedeemed9 жыл бұрын
So this is how far I've made it into this lecture series. The dwindling views correlating which ascending lecture numbers suggests I should've abandoned ship earlier. Still, the concept behind the class is good, and I'm grateful for what I've learned. But the meandering arrogance of Dr. Bulliet has finally got to me. I wish the best to those who continue.