HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carol Hanisch
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Colonialism: where and when (cultures in contact and conflict) Columbus reaches new world: he only made it to the bahamas and thought he was in india. Pilgrims: coming to the new world for religious freedom and will execute anyone else who doesn"t practice their puritan religion. Native americans: pocahontas and john smith, he was 27 and she was. The colonization of north america was part of a trans-atlantic world. Maps are not objective information- they reflect information but also form interpretations. European view of africa 1644: in early maps, sea monsters indicated that no one knew what was there and hasn"t been charted. This map includes images of individuals of various african cultures. They included small images of animals, to indicate how strange and foreign africa is. Discovery vs invasion, peopling vs colonization, wilderness vs communities. Peopling makes it sound passive and as if there aren"t people already there that are being displaced and undergoing genocide.
