I found it highly interesting how much information chapter one of the America's gives a lot of information about how the "America's" started. How people came, what species they have manifested, and what can be drawn from certain crops around the world. The America's had started in the North and most people from the world had came from "Old World" where Asia joins. Who knew, right?! Our world is made up by migrations. It has been said individuals have came from Africa. We are known to be species that have lived for thousands of years. People are known to have been deprived from the hemisphere, each person shares there own distinctive cultural diversity. Many people have came in different times. When it came to land, Asia and America had the most accessible land for over a period "many sixty thousand years" (Hernandez-Armesto 24). During the 1970's many basketwork and fine knapped tools had came to Pennsylvania. There were tools that were being used and manufactured during this time. "In Southern Chile they introduced a twenty-foot-long wood built, hide covered dwelling with a big mastodon butchery and tool manufacture"(Hernandez-Armesto 24 ). With all the tools coming into hand, showed a dramatic change and how people can now work with real tools and equipments other than using there bare hands. As we know American history did begin in the north, there were colonizations where they compared people who stayed in the north were thinking about taking steps into civilization. Such as producing food rather than hunting for it. Food has brought a sense of worship and nurture for the "divine" foods. Without the help from humans in order for the food to help survive and breed it would not have been possible. With all this coming into hand we also have to think about the negatives such as what natural disasters can bring to crops. Reminds me of when my dad had planted a whole bunch of tomatoes in our backyard. He would be in the backyard for hours just digging the right place, soiling it down, and watering it two times a day. about four ears ago, the weather was not the greatest since it was always raining and the poor area where worked had came all into a disastrous mess due to a huge storm. In the example it had talked about the El Nino event that had caused the environments to go down hill.
Another important development that had came about was Maize. Maize had spread from the south and north and became very useful to the native staples in Peru. During the third century Maize had spread, but didn't begin to change the country until later of the end of ninth century when new developed varieties were becoming more accessible. It is known to be the Maize was a blessing, since it was helpful when it came to keeping strong bones and teeth. There's always the pros and cons in something, right!
Chapter 2- America's First Normalcy
The Mayas were urban people. The standard life of living in the urban areas were that it was not the greatest. Most things if they had to happened took place in the cities due to the buildings an houses, the fact that they displayed a different sense of attraction. The Mayan writing and sculpting was a big deal during this era. They would draw and write such things on stones in fancy writing, most of what was encoded. Many of the literature writing system was more kept in hand. They were codes that were caried from Mexico and deserts and mountains and this is called the United States now. Numbers and literature was kept as codes not that easy to master and know the secrets behind. The Mayans did a good job in keeping it decoded from others. There was in fact other people that also had there own systems which were good for there own goods. American civilizations had picture writings, glyphs, and other elements that were good for data and performing a certain ritual.
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