Sharon Cotter, Wednesdays 10 am-12 noon
ZOOM: January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17
Registrants will receive an e-mail containing information about joining the course sessions.
Please register each person in the household individually.
Many of us think we know a lot about the history of the world… the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia, the Romans, the Greeks, the Chinese, early India, but that is only part of the story. South America has a history that goes back at least 10,000 years and perhaps as much as 30,000 years. It is not just Machu Pichu--one of the earliest civilizations developed at around 8,000 feet! The South Americans were not defeated by the Spanish Conquistadors, but rather by the diseases they brought to the new continent. While the Amazon had over a million people when the first Spanish explorer came, by the time the conquistadors came, over 90% of the population had died from those diseases. Some of the most amazing things you will learn about this lost history is that while they did not have a written language, the people of South America built some of the most beautiful cities in the ancient world. Their agricultural science was way ahead of most cultures up until the current era. Pottery and textiles were some of the best in the world. The architecture that was developed would withstand virtually any earthquake. There were over 24,800 miles of roads created in some of the most challenging mountains in the world. The earliest mummies in South America date to 5050 AD, 2000 years before the mummies in Egypt. This and many more amazing facts will be included in this fascinating course on the Pre-History of South America.
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