GG270 Study Guide - Final Guide: East India Company, Cosmas Indicopleustes, José Eustasio Rivera
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Gg 270 exam notes: case study: revisiting european exploration and cultural diffusion, late medieval and renaissance period trade. In the europe of the middle ages human observations about the world conformed to biblical scripture. Belief that the universe also known as the cosmos was the creation of a divine being. The study of such an ordered universe was known as cosmography and its practitioners cosmographers, included such things as nautical science, geography, astronomy. Map of mundi orientation is to its east: contains beasts/creatures; represents of what we know and don"t know creatures are fears/what we don"t know incorporates everything everyone knows all known knowledge. Colonial maps show who owes what land, overwrite history. World pictures of cosmas - 547 a. d. During the age of exploration, the amount of new information overwhelmed cosmographers. New information failed to correspond with religious conventions e. g. conflict with the church over geocentrism vs. heliocentrism. These developments became part of the renaissance.
