HIST 1707 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnocentrism, Ceratonia Siliqua
3 Dec 2017
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By 1500s, europeans knew the existence of the caribbean islands. The new world considered useless for economic growth. Far from established and lacking of any importance. European theology based off of two (christian) religious occurrences. South americans not decedents of noah from noah"s ark. They are childish sub-humans, or not humans at all since they were not mentioned in the bible. All religions in the t world compatible with christianity, even hinduism. Jews, christians, muslims take first five books of the bible because moses wrote them. People in the old world had zero psychological preparation for the existence of people unlike themselves. Cadamosto is defining european identity based on the things he is deprived of (e. g. food) when he"s outside of europe. Carob is used to describe taino who eat human flesh. European mindset: if a culture practices cannibalism, we can do whatever we want on them. Cannibalism is usually about dominance, not for sustenance.
