HISA04H3 Lecture : Problems in New Lands.docx
Document Summary
Explorers ran into problems of how to identify things that they discovered" while arriving in new lands. Compare to known things: looks like so must be . There was money needed after the reconquest of the holy lands (jerusalem etc. ) from the muslims in name of spanish. Religion was a way to show others who they were. Put a cross in the ground and assumption of being christian. Spanish put idea of garden of eden for the americas. Tainos were to represent innocence (adam and eve: columbus claimed that the tainos were naked of clothing and culture". Spanish had two ways of justifying conquering the americas: The land was empty land": no dwellings. Bougainville wanted to be the first french captain to circumvent the world. As his boats went past, canoes from the natives came up and a woman climbed onto the french boats.
