History of photography

History of the World –

Imagine what the world was like during the photographic years/eras we will be discussing [this is World History and NOT Photo History] – photography did not evolve in a vacuum. there was so much going on!

– what did the world look like, for royalty and common folk etc. This may be used as a reference for your upcoming ‘What in the World’/ World Snapshot/Pop!’ over the coming weeks… please make it interesting, we will be hearing from all of you at the beginning of each week as our discussions [TBD]

–Give us a view of the world and describe what is happening in the world –this is NOT what is happening in Photography, only what is happening around the world during the eras we are talking about [please use more than just Wikipedia!]

CE = Common Era (AD) , BCE(BC) = Before Common Era

In each area of the world below,

• North America (includes Mexico)

• Central & South Americas
• Africa/Middle East/Mediterranean
• Asia
• Australia/Oceania
• Western Europe & Eastern Europe

Research and write out three bulleted full sentences, describe what is happening in each area during these eras (approximate years are fine)

1. 1000 BCE – 1000 CE
2. 1000 – 1400s
3. 1400 – 1700s
4. 1700 – 1900s

Include– leaders/rulers, wars, plagues, ordinary people/peasants/slavery, transportation, climate etc. and other important issues of the time.

If any areas in the world were missed, please tell me!

EXAMPLE:

Last name, first name

Photo 34 Section #____

Date

History of the World

North America

1000 BCE – 1000 CE

• Adena culture -1000- 100 BCE – Early Woodland Period, various societies around Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, New York – hunter and gatherers, some agriculture and grew tobacco for ceremonial uses. A Pre-Columbian Native American society, that lived close to major waterways and extensively traded and were known for their burial earth mounds for special persons.
• Hopewell – culture flourished between 200 BCE to 500 CE in what is today the NE & Midwest US/Ohio & Illinois. Adena culture is seen as a precursor to the Hopewell culture. They hunted, fished, had some agriculture, crafted bead necklaces, armbands, pendants, pottery, wooden spoons, and make woven clothing made from the inner bark of trees.
• Anasazi people – spanned in the southwestern US/ Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado. – bow and arrow replaced the spear and gave hunters greater striking distance. Horses had not yet arrived. By 200 CE, they grew beans, squash, maize (corn) which derived from northern Mexico.

1000 CE– 1400s

• Arctic peoples- 2000 BCE – 1450 CE- around the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia develop marine hunting technology, based on Asiatic traditions to capture sea mammals
• Puebloan cultures -New Mexico -700 – 1600 CE- villages, known as pueblos were built. ‘Pueblo’ is a Spanish term for ‘village’ when Spaniards entered the area in the 1500s and founded Nuevo Mexico
• By the end of the 1500s, Spain aggressively attempted to colonize the Pueblo areas and were met with great resistance.

1400s – 1700s

• The arrival of Europeans at the end of the 1400s, followed by the coming of fishermen, fur traders, gold seekers, and colonists, alters Native American lifeways forever.
• Christopher Columbus, 1492, land on an island in the Caribbean, and claims it for Spain. John Cabot claims Newfoundland for England in 1497 and Europeans begins to fish in the nearby water.
• 1500s- Contacts between Europeans and Native Americans increase during the following century, particularly in the Northeast, where trade expands and the arts of the region begin a period of integration of foreign elements into objects of everyday use. New diseases, too, arrive with the Europeans, beginning a cycle of decimation that will last until the nineteenth century.

1700 – 1900s

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Central & South Americas

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Africa/Middle East/Mediterranean

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• ETC…ETC… for the rest of the world listed