HISA04H3 Lecture : HISA04- Lecture Week 1 - 6.docx
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Revisiting the question: which image is more historically accurate? (columbia or cortez) When columbus looked at the americas, he peered through tightly woven filters of expectation and assumption from the past. : for example, naming it the indies (meaning the east indies) Mostly interested in going to china (asia) Columbus thought that the earth was round: we also have our own filters of expectation and assumptions when looking back at. He saw mermaids because he was high , knowledge of biology was probably non-existent and was playing around with his audience, may have seen something that resembled a mermaid. References to the past and making stories (odysseys) The image represents daily life in asia the image of the east in manderville"s travels : for europeans, the image of the ast was determined largely by marco polo and john. Mandeville: mandeville"s account was much more popular than the more accurate one of marco.
