GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Talmud, Collective Trauma, Babylonian Captivity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Collective trauma and banishment; longing for home and homeland. Diasporas are also about cultural memory of the event. Ex: slaves, jews, brits moving, chinese railroad, indian trading, caribbean indigenious people wiped out by immigrants (cultural) First jewish exile - the babylonian exile. Integration into rich and alien culture: torah and talmud developed, jews in egypt, turkey, asia minor, by 4th century bce, more jews outside than in israel. Second jewish exile- destruction of temple of jerusalem by the romans: anti-semitism, emperor constantine makes xianity sole religion, germans and holocaust, russian pogroms. The european colonial slave trade (16th 19th centuries) Caribbeans, southern states and brazil were greatly changed. 1770: african descent in the carribean 91% Between 1502 1860s, 9,500,000 africans transported to usa. Sierra leone after british abolition of slave trade. Africans went freely then brought to india by portuguese, british.