PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stone Age, Cultural Practice
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South asia and china ancient civilizations they were wealthier than europeans were had to find a way to conceive superiority they wanted to trade salt, fish. Aslams were more advanced had silk, paper, guns, etc. Bible mentions two groups that are not europeans all descended from the same man everyone related through descent from noah some groups seemed superior. Then what are they doing here they talk to barters they didn"t cook, didn"t dress the same way they can reproduce so they are human but they don"t know if they practice europeans would. Religion does a monotheistic deity believe in them - are they excluded from human realm . Europeans believed in demons they were not sure if there was a man or single god it took. Europeans hundreds of years to take over the islands. This conquest becomes the template of all new encounters europeans have with other people.