HIS106Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Francisco Javier Clavijero, Classical Antiquity, Cornelius De Pauw
Document Summary
The rise of reason the dispute of the new world. Creole efforts to counter the european theories of american degeneracy made it easier for them to imagine a separate history from europe. Creole being aware that regardless of their claimed to european heritage, they were still considered second class, as were their forms of civilization. Enlightenment debate over the nature of the new world. (if the new world was behind europe, it was because of the environment they were in, not the people themselves). Europeans claimed that america was immature and degenerate. The enlightened art of reading: texts of exploration. Reading in the early colonial period: accounts by armchair historians were generally accepted. Eyewitnesses were generally trusted (focus on authority of author), if the author said they saw something it was taken as truth. Codices and quipus were generally trusted as historical documents used to write histories of.
