Listening to “The Meeting of Two Worlds” videos and reading the journal of Christopher Columbus himself has left me with two feelings. One being, intrigued about what happens next in the historical story, and the second being frustrated with Columbus. The first feeling is usually how I feel when I begin to learn about a […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with Columbus, European Mindset, history, Superiority
The first thing to know about Christopher Columbus, is that that is not his real name. His real name is Cristoforo Colombo, an Italian man. I find it interesting because even with the name of this course and the socially constructed term of “Latin America,” we can see that ideas and life courses get translated …
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Columbus, Guaman Poma de Ayala, Spain, two worlds, week2
The arrival of Columbus and his people to the Americas in 1492 and what it signifies for both Latin American and European history is an incredibly complex subject. It starts from the way that arrival is framed – is it a “discovery”, a “conquering”, an “invasion”? We tend to quickly classify it as one or […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with Columbus, Guaman Poma
This week’s subject is surrounding the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and his first interactions with indigenous people. By watching the the videos and reading the articles I became more familiar with Columbus ambitions regarding his reasoning for starting his voyage towards western hemisphere. It was interesting to realize that his main driver for […]
This week we have explored various representations of Columbus’ arrival in the New World, through texts and student videos. Within the texts, it is clear that both authors, as posed in one of the week’s questions were very much aware of their audience. Columbus addresses the Crown within his introduction and Poma associates the years […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with agency, Columbus, indigenous, new world, representation
I find the title of the video interesting as this event has always been described as a “discovery” but in the recent years I have changed this to an “exchange”. It is interesting to consider 1492 the “birth” of Latin America. The region has always been there with well developed cultures, yet it is interesting […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with Columbus, Meeting of Two Worlds
Reading Columbus’ journals leaves me with a reinforced belief that Columbus may not be the villain of Euro-American history, but he played a very significant role as a villain. Although the reality that understanding does not time travel well, the things Columbus did were against the beliefs of his own God, the Church through Antonio de Montesino, Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spanish heads of state, including, albeit arguably, King Ferdinand II and his son King Charles V during that time period. Although the violence Columbus committed against the Natives of the Americas’ was horrific, it was far from surprising. The thing I found most surprising in these excerpts were the lack of the details of what he did to the peoples he had plans to “subjugate” as when the Lucayan peoples refused his orders or him stating “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand”. Unfortunately, this seems to be in the further future of Christopher Columbus.
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with Christopher Columbus, Columbus
Reading Columbus’ journals leaves me with a reinforced belief that Columbus may not be the villain of Euro-American history, but he played a very significant role as a villain. Although the reality that understanding does not time travel well, the things Columbus did were against the beliefs of his own God, the Church through Antonio de Montesino, Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spanish heads of state, including, albeit arguably, King Ferdinand II and his son King Charles V during that time period. Although the violence Columbus committed against the Natives of the Americas’ was horrific, it was far from surprising. The thing I found most surprising in these excerpts were the lack of the details of what he did to the peoples he had plans to “subjugate” as when the Lucayan peoples refused his orders or him stating “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand”. Unfortunately, this seems to be in the further future of Christopher Columbus.
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with arts, blogpost2, chirstophercolumbus, Columbus, UBC
Reading Columbus’ journals leaves me with a reinforced belief that Columbus may not be the villain of Euro-American history, but he played a very significant role as a villain. Although the reality that understanding does not time travel well, the things Columbus did were against the beliefs of his own God, the Church through Antonio de Montesino, Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spanish heads of state, including, albeit arguably, King Ferdinand II and his son King Charles V during that time period. Although the violence Columbus committed against the Natives of the Americas’ was horrific, it was far from surprising. The thing I found most surprising in these excerpts were the lack of the details of what he did to the peoples he had plans to “subjugate” as when the Lucayan peoples refused his orders or him stating “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand”. Unfortunately, this seems to be in the further future of Christopher Columbus.
