Bartolome de las casas

Week 1: Latin American Studies

Narrating the story of the “First Encounter” it is a big responsibility. In my opinion, the facts and the arguments you use are key for the readers to understand the two versions of this story. In the video “Meeting of Two Worlds” it really caught my eye the comparison between Christopher Columbus and Bartolomé deContinue reading “Week 1: Latin American Studies”

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Week 3: The Colonial Experience

This week we are looking at the Colonial experience through Cast Paintings, the story of Luitenent Nun, peer videos and lecture. I found the Memoir of Catalina de Eraus very interesting. I had never heard of Catalina nor of another female colonizer. Her journey from a convent, to multiple cities in Spain, to crossing the seas […]

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