RE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pope Nicholas V, Papal Bull, Canary Islands
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Re100 unit 2: religion and colonialism (cid:1) (cid:1) Began at least 9,000 years, not long after archaeologists believe ancient peoples began domesticating grains in mesopotamia. Archaeological evidence of grinding stones with domesticated maize have been found in caves/rack-shelters in rio balsas valley of. Guerrero, mexico, which have been dated to 8,700 kya. Believed to come from a wild plant called teosinte (= god grain ) Teosinte has branching stalks capped by flowers and spikes. Seeds are small and attached bilaterally to spikes. All the while, young maize retains its soft, sweet stalk that may have been why people originally consumed it. Maize in science and technology: domestication, use of every part, importance to culture, intercropping, adaptation to ecological zones, nixtamalization (soaked grains) processed in an alkali (soaked in lime water, i. e. tortilla chips, preservation. According to dr. sheila cote-meek, associate vp, academic and. Indigenous studies at laurentian university, colonialism is a process that:
