ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indus River, Dholavira, Mehrgarh

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

Two common western misconceptions: the orient express & the. The orient express: it makes a claim about the history of civilization begin outside of europe but europeans eventually adopt and make it better. Train route, moving around regions in one direction towards the west. Blaut states that these areas did get civilized but the. Orient express ignores 80% of the rest of the world! The european miracle: states that some aspect of europe set it apart from the rest of the world and made them superior. Believing that europe was better, faster, and more advanced than others. Developed all at once and pulled everyone else out of the darkness. Blaut says this is a myth because everyone was rationed or irrational as each other: the advanced freedom-loving european state (119, 124): europeans thought they loved freedom more than others. 300 movie shows how the ilmmakers portrayed persians as civilized whereas the spartans (king leonidas) were seen as barbaric.