Columbian

Examples of Columbian in the following topics:

• Enduring Cultures

  • The phrase "pre-Columbian era" literally refers only to the time preceding Christopher Columbus's voyages of 1492 [].
  • Many pre-Columbian civilizations established hallmarks which included permanent settlements, cities, agriculture, civic and monumental architecture, major earthworks, and complex societal hierarchies.
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas continue to evolve after the pre-Columbian era.
  • Direct archaeological evidence for such pre-Columbian contacts and transport has been lacking, however.
  • A 2007 paper published in PNAS put forward DNA and archaeological evidence that domesticated chickens had been introduced into South America via Polynesia by late pre-Columbian times.

• The White City, Chicago and the World Columbian Exposition

  • The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was an international fair whose grandeur symbolized emerging American exceptionalism.
  • The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair, was a fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
  • The World's Columbian Exposition was the first world's fair with an area for amusements that was strictly separated from the exhibition halls.
  • Evaluate the significance of the Chicago World Columbian Exposition in 1893

• Innovation and Limitation

  • The pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America brought innovation in agriculture, mathematics, architecture, and other subjects.
  • The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America and their descendants.
  • This created the Pre-Columbian savannas of North America.

• Disease in the New World

  • The transfer of disease between the Old World and New World was part of the phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange.
  • Estimates of the pre-Columbian population have ranged from 8.4 million to 112.5 million persons, while estimates of indigenous deaths generally range from 2 to 15 million.

• Native Americans in the 1490's

• Gender and Politics

  • Constitution in 1788, she issued a pamphlet, written under the pseudonym, "A Columbian Patriot," that opposed ratification of the document and advocated the inclusion of a Bill of Rights.

• Changes in American Indian Life

  • With the meeting of two worlds, animals, insects, plants, cultures, and diseases were carried from one to the other, both deliberately and by chance, in what is called the Columbian Exchange.

• Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

  • The Adena culture was a pre-Columbian Native-American culture that existed from 1000 to 200 BCE, in a time known as the early Woodland Period.

• Great Basin Culture

  • The Great Basin is a multi-state endorheic area surrounded by the Pacific Watershed of North America, home to the pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.

• Outdoor Recreation

  • Coney Island wanted one, and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago featured one.