SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Middle Ages, Feudalism, Diocletianic Persecution
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Why do we study the past: so to not repeat history, learn from it (mistakes) Track progress of humankind, how culture and we developed through time. Change: understand our present, detect patterns to help plan future, self-fulfillment. Progress thinking things will get better and that mankind is moving towards its fulfillment, the apex of its being is a myth ~ things are the way they are. Middle ages = cultural sag, according to scholars: because it is the period between the 1st and 2nd coming of jesus, according to medieval scholars. Progress was not in the minds of middle age people. Present is being distanced from the past as it broadens out: makes the past easier to deny, to disagree with, making it more important to study the past. War of 1812 commercial by the gov"t of canada during the 2012 olympics: glorification of war, ultra-nationalistic, equal treatment of native and.