Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Lecture 37: The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era

Bentley and Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters, chaps. 6, 21.

Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 10.

Brown, Big History, chap. 9.

Mann, 1491.

1. What are the most striking similarities in the histories of the American
   and Afro-Eurasian world zones?


2. What were the most striking differences in the histories of these two
   zones, and why did they matter?

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading

Questions to Consider