POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Grameen Bank, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Frantz Fanon
2 Jan 2014
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Post-colonial thinkers alert us that the expansion of europe had profound impact on the attitudes of the colonized europeans. From 1083 ad, trade between africa and china. In order to become a trading empire, you have to have a complex administrative structure. Keep order of exports, organize merchants, and regulate trade. Nok empire (northern nigeria, 4th and 5th centuries. Mali empire, africa, 12th and 13th centuries: theory that the mali empire was able to sell to america. Found images of black people in central america. Maya, central america, 11th century: had calendar more advanced than the american calendar, had written language. Sophisticated agricultural systems: india, china, peru (inca: can"t move on until able to produce agricultural surplus. Complex administrative structures: maintenance required extensive administrative work. It was where you were born and what social group you were born into: particularly in pre-colonial societies, competence and skill were taken into account.
