HIST 2055 Chapter : History 2055
Document Summary
Memory, fragmentary as it is, becomes malleable through the force of a political or cultural ideology. Types of history (overlapping: political contending factions, military diplomacy and war, economic market forces, intellectual impact of ideas, social village or city life, cultural shared experiences, emotional boundaries of feeling. Indians: european explorers wrote home of the gentleness and docility of the indigenous people of the north american continent. What might have been a workable solution, given what we know about their world: is racism indispensable to a nation bent on conquering, the enemy is dehumanized so that you have no sympathy while killing them. Indians were compared to the animals in the wild; out of control, cannot be tamed ideology of white southern plantation owners: africans were designed for slave labor. Ways of thinking in the age of the seafarer: a spherical earth was the basis for ancient greek cartography, and flat earth thinking was never dominant among educated people.
