| Course ID: | ANTH(HIST)(NAMS) 4470/6470. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | The Rise and Fall of the Southeastern Chiefdoms |
Course
Description: | Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the sixteenth century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples. |
| Oasis Title: | S E CHIEFDOMS |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in ANTH(HIST) 4470/6470 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The purpose of this course is to survey the rise of chiefdoms in
the late prehistoric Southeast, to reconstruct the world these
chiefdoms made, to document the activities of sixteenth-century
Spanish explorers and colonists, and to trace the subsequent
decline of the chiefdoms. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction
2. The Southeastern landscape
3. Southeastern prehistory
4. The rise of the chiefdoms
5. Long-term social and cultural patterns in the southeast
6. The Mississippian world: social geography of the 16th-century
southeast
7. Early Spanish exploration
8. Hernando de Soto's Exploration of the Southeast, 1539-1543
9. Disease nad demographic decline
10. Worlds in collision |