HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Santa Barbara City College, Deccan Plateau, Ottoman Wars In Europe
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Have a healthy respect for each other, don"t consider them to be barbarians. Don"t mutually understand the others" background, so there"s no assumed rules of warfare. So you fight until there is some cultural boundaries or rules for warfare, or one gets subordinated to the other. Like the spanish and the indians, the mongols and literally anyone they conquered. Warfare between subcultures of a big culture. They intentionally misunderstand each others" culture and demonize the enemy. (so you can"t overcome it like you could in intercultural warfare) Late medieval europe- when they started to demonize the enemy. Hitler"s nazi germany, anti-mormons vs members of the church (though that"s not violent), american politics at times, Elite vs commoner divide in cross cultural conflict. Know the diagram from frameworks of this for the test. Peasants were never really able to engage in the core ideas of these conflicts the way that elites could. Steppe vs sown conflict becomes important again.
