Civilizations come into existence and meet their downfall in different ways. Back then, our ancestors built mysterious cultures. Their civilizations have come and gone, but remnants of their cultures still exist today. The embedded history left marks all around the world, leaving us with awe, mysteries, and questions. Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Mayan civilizations all had their golden ages, but demise was inevitable with every civilization. Among the arcane emblems of our ancestors, those of Easter Island in Chile encompass the enigmas of old civilizations. Origins of the native people were still shrouded in controversies. Acts that aggrandize the island’s civilization persist in being ambiguous. Spurts of the civilization cascaded into the society’s obliteration. Easter Island’s dawn, rise, and fall evoked vacillating bafflements, skeptics and hypotheses. What was most puzzling about Easter Island’s civilization was …show more content…
There are two tremendous devastations that took place on the Easter Island. The first was deforestation which lead to the civil-war and cannibalism. People on Easter Island, deforested the once flourished island because of the need to transport statues, which then, represented civility, but now represent the downfall of the society. One by one all of the trees on the island were cut down. Consequently, the land was unfertile and there were no trees to build houses or sea-worthy ships, and they were trapped on the deforested island. After all the natural resources had been depleted, the natives turned into savages. They blamed one another and destroyed statues which symbolized their civilization. They fought and the victors ate their dead enemies out of the belief that they would gain strength and power. The bones on the island provide evidence of their cannibalism. Van Tilburg said that the bones on the island provide evidence of their
The lorax and Easter Island (Polynesians) The Lorax by Dr.Seuss is a fictional story and the story Easters End is not. The Lorax has many messages about how if we are not careful we will soon be in a similar situation and also tells shows what shape are enviroment is in society by showing: Pollution both land and water, overpopulation, and having all the trees cut down. The sotry of the Polynesians show what is going to happen if we dont learn from their past and the mistakes they've made. The Polynesian people would make big statues made of stone and put them on platforms and they used many trees to make what they needed to move the statues. In The Lorax they used the Truffela tree to use as a resource for their product "the thneed"
Easter Island shows how the Polynesian people that traveled over there and overused the land just like the movie The Lorax. In the movie The Lorax it shows how the Once-ler stumbled across the Truffula trees and made a living off them. The land of Easter Island used it differently then the people of the fictional land of The Lorax. They also had similarities between them. Such as how the land was overused and ended with deforestation.
For one the Lorax is a fictional tale rather than reality. Also, in the Lorax the Once-ler used the trees for his own economic gain rather than for a population to build resources for them to live and survive. In Easter’s End people didn’t know how to survive off resources and sustain for the future. Since the Polynesians had no wood to make tools with, they had no ways to hunt for food which led to the idea of cannibalism, that later lead to the extinction of humans on Easter Island.
Many people wonder what happened to the islanders and wonder why they disappeared. Easter Island is famous for its many large statues which were carved of stone and dragged half way across the island to be placed. But to move the stones, the people had to cut down palm trees which eventually caused the island to be stripped of its trees population and caused the animals to migrate and find other food sources. When the animals migrated it caused the islanders population to collapse due to wars and starvation which lead to cannibalism among the people. Although the island had went through an ecological disaster in the early 1600’s, the people were able to restore the stability of the island and they lived relatively well until the late 1600’s.
Early civilizations such as the Inca Empire played an immense role in shaping the world with its ingenious survival techniques and most importantly its people. One of the most important and crucial group of the Inca’s were the kurakas. Before the Spanish conquest, the kurakas played a vital role in their communities. They were in charge of their lineages, or ayllus. In andean society, these ayllus were viewed as the basic political and productive unit (Spalding, 28).
7,000 native children died from starvation in the 3-4 months after Columbus and his men arrived at the island. They collected pregnant women from all over the island, wagered the genders of their babies, then sliced open their bellies. It didn’t even matter if they were right or wrong about the gender of the baby, because either way the mothers were killed and the babies were thrown aside. The men also split apart Taino families into slave groups. Each white man had a posse of slaves to do work for them, and in a “fair trade” taught them all about Christianity.
During 600 BCE and 600 CE, many countries was going through a drastic change. When analyzing early civilizations, it’s evident there is similarities and differences. The Middle East, China, and Africa were among few countries that advanced during this aeon. All of these empires within the countries have risen and fallen, developing these civilizations to what we know of today.
Annotated Bibliography Lasal Mapitigama Thesis: Constant warfare created strong instability in Mayan society because no city state could rule all the Maya, causing a lack of central authority, and a strong emphasis on capturing and executing captives often left regional leaders dead after wars. Aoyama, Kazuo. "Warfare, Warriors, and Weapons." In Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya, edited by Walter R. Witschey, 376-79. New York City, NY: Roman & Littlefield, 2016.
Discussion Questions 1. Several factors that contributed to the extinction of trees on the island included the constant chopping of trees to build canoes, to transport statues, to build to plant gardens, and to burn them for fires. The large population of rats that chewed palm nuts, also contributed to the extinction of trees. 2. If I would have arrived on the island before the tree populations were extinct, I would have advised the Easter Islanders to slow down the production of canoes, statues, houses, and gardens.
One of the greatest and most advanced early civilizations is argued to be the Aztecs. From the 12th century to the 15th, the Aztecs had many achievements that are still very significant in today’s society. The Aztec empire was truly a spectacular civilization that to this day is still not completely understood. The people who became part of the great empire were originally nomads whose main focus was to hunt and gather. As their civilization began to expand they had to adapt to an agricultural lifestyle.
In this reading, Lisa LeCount discusses how feasting in Mesoamerica could display or reinforce political roles and rituals. Dr. LeCount is a Latin American archaeologist whose primary focus is in rituals like feasting; she examines how social and political practices are interconnected. Citing data collected at various sites, she constructs a timeline of how drinking chocolate evolved as a political act; based on vases from the Late Classic Maya, LeCount asserts that the act of drinking chocolate was primarily associated with elite events. Therefore, she concludes, drinking chocolate was a political act of communication between different parties; it could be to firmly establish an allegiance, or as general agreement between different people
They tamed the vicious sea and brought back life to the island. They brought in all sorts have animals that had inhabited the island before the General invaded. The list seemed interminable, ranging from deer to little bunnies, monkeys to porcupines. Travelers came from near and far to not just see the island and engross themselves in its beauty but also to help Rainsford and the others make it even more beautiful than before. Rainsford, looking over the new island he calls home, said “That one interminable night in the blood-warm Caribbean was all worth it.
In the two stories “The lorax” and “Easter Island” there are lots of differences and similarities. Both stories have environmental issues dealing with trees and air quality. The environment in each story became a wasteland and was eventually polluted by trash. Once-ler in the lorax story and the Polynesians in the Easter island story tried to protect the environment but both failed to do so, all natural resources were lost and everything went downhill from there. First, in “The lorax” an environmental issue was the air quality.
The island was an extremely poor country with very little structured government or infrastructure due to poor rule for
Amerigo Vespucci - 2nd Degree Murder It is May 14, 1501 and Amerigo vespucci has started searching for a new and faster trade route to Asia, to his surprise he had landed in the soon to be realised Americas. Amerigo lands, him and his men start to explore the diverse islands to see if they were inhabited. One day they discovered an island with the most amazing natives. Themselves, the food, and the trade was wonderful.