ECO-201-OL02 Amy Gibson Excellent points and information, Jennifer.  What about the effects of the gig economy on the economy as a whole?  Do you think it has more benefits or more costs?  Would this type of work help during a recession?  Jessica Henderson I agree that one of the benefits include the flexibility of hours. I would love to be able to take a vacation whenever i wanted! I do not like how it does not provide the benefits that full time employment does with retirements and health insurance.  Great job on your post! HTY-110HM-OL05 Module 1 What does it mean to be matrilineal and what roles can it play in the political and economics of those tribes (Southwest and Iroquois). Robert Thorpe According to Dictionary,com Matrilineal means: inheriting or determining descent through the female line. I didn't quite understand that definition until reading some of the other threads and by also looking up the Iroquois Tribe on USHistory.org. Faith directly influenced the economic conditions and oversight of crops and anything else that came from Mother Earth was given to the women. Females would oversee the of dispersing of food. During the Confederacy of the Iroquois women would select the Sachems(or representatives) that would act in their political interest. According to Brian Schwimmer at University of Manitoba the women of the Hopi would own the house, crops and land. They would also hold important ritual roles as well as judicial office positions. The roles that Native American women play It this why some  Native Americans differs vastly from the European role. I wonder if it is for this reason that Native American women like Pocahontas and Sacagawea became intertwined with early American history?  Module 1 Analyze the effects of maize’s introduction into the Misssissippian culture and how does its introduction changed the ways in which the people interacted. David Turner The introduction of maize into the Mississippian culture changed the nomadic lifestyle of the people into an agricultural one. Rather than constantly moving, looking for food, permanent houses were constructed near the fields of maize. People moved into richer more fertile areas for growing crops. Centers of greater population emerged. Just as in any culture, as the populations increased there was also an increase in power.  Political power was from the control of the surplus of maize. Classes of people began to emerge; the ruling class, the upper class, and the commoners. Central mounds were built in centers of towns or villages. Political and spiritual power emerged. Rather than smaller tribes focusing on family, the larger concentrations of people focused on community. The surplus corn was used as currency for trading, bringing in minerals and metals. The trade routes enriched the Mississippian culture.  Maize led to the downfall of the Mississippian Culture as well. War and feuding over surplus and land, self-contained groups that did not need the larger commu.

1. ECO-201-OL02
Amy Gibson
Excellent points and information, Jennifer. What about the
effects of the gig economy on the economy as a whole? Do you
think it has more benefits or more costs? Would this type of
work help during a recession?
Jessica Henderson
I agree that one of the benefits include the flexibility of hours. I
would love to be able to take a vacation whenever i wanted! I
do not like how it does not provide the benefits that full time
employment does with retirements and health insurance. Great
job on your post!
HTY-110HM-OL05
Module 1 What does it mean to be matrilineal and what roles
can it play in the political and economics of those tribes
(Southwest and Iroquois).
Robert Thorpe
According to Dictionary,com Matrilineal means: inheriting or
determining descent through the female line. I didn't quite
understand that definition until reading some of the other
threads and by also looking up the Iroquois Tribe on
USHistory.org. Faith directly influenced the economic
conditions and oversight of crops and anything else that came
from Mother Earth was given to the women. Females would
oversee the of dispersing of food. During the Confederacy of
the Iroquois women would select the Sachems(or
representatives) that would act in their political interest.
According to Brian Schwimmer at University of Manitoba the
women of the Hopi would own the house, crops and land. They
would also hold important ritual roles as well as judicial office

2. positions.
The roles that Native American women play It this why some
Native Americans differs vastly from the European role. I
wonder if it is for this reason that Native American women like
Pocahontas and Sacagawea became intertwined with early
American history?
Module 1 Analyze the effects of maize’s introduction into the
Misssissippian culture and how does its introduction changed
the ways in which the people interacted.
David Turner
The introduction of maize into the Mississippian culture
changed the nomadic lifestyle of the people into an agricultural
one. Rather than constantly moving, looking for food,
permanent houses were constructed near the fields of maize.
People moved into richer more fertile areas for growing crops.
Centers of greater population emerged. Just as in any culture, as
the populations increased there was also an increase in power.
Political power was from the control of the surplus of maize.
Classes of people began to emerge; the ruling class, the upper
class, and the commoners. Central mounds were built in centers
of towns or villages. Political and spiritual power emerged.
Rather than smaller tribes focusing on family, the larger
concentrations of people focused on community. The surplus
corn was used as currency for trading, bringing in minerals and
metals. The trade routes enriched the Mississippian culture.
Maize led to the downfall of the Mississippian Culture as well.
War and feuding over surplus and land, self-contained groups
that did not need the larger communities, and populations
moving away from the ceremonial centers.
Module 2 Discussion
Jason Hatcher
The first European settlers arrived on large sailing ships the
natives did not process. The first settlers arrived with armor and

3. weapons. The natives lacked iron producing skills to create such
armaments. They had written words and their own system of
rules. They wore different types of clothes and had
domesticated animals. The first Europeans would have felt the
natives were uneducated as they did not write. They would have
felt the natives could not defend themselves as they did not
have superior weaponry. The first Europeans would have felt
the natives had no identifiable religions. The first Spanish
Europeans would have felt they would need to educate the
natives about Catholicism.
The natives at first would not have felt the Europeans were
inferior to them. They would have treated them suspiciously at
first but would have been more interested in trade. As disease
and armed skirmishes with the settlers would have occurred the
natives would then begin to feel inferior. The natives could not
match the early European’s guns and cannon, or their sheer
cruelty of enforcing their will upon them.
Module 2 Discussion
Dawn Flippin
I believe the Indians and the European were both.
The European's began their journey in the new world that they
would have to find ways to survive on unknown land and could
they bring their current living style to the new land. They
believed that their way of life was the only way to live. But as
they learned they were not alone since the Native Americans
already there and had their own ways of living. As farmers,
producing crops, hunters and fishing men. The Native
Americans appears to have a smooth way of life.
In most cases the Native Americans had very little interacting
with the European's upon their arrival which did not cause them
any fear at first. However, later the European's would begin to
take advantage of the Native Americans by bearing gifts to
trade sometimes for the Native American’s land which could
lead one to think the Native Americans were less intelligent.