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Week 2: The Meeting of Two Worlds

This weeks readings were based on Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americans, an Epic “The Araucaniad”, and a chronicle written and illustrated by the indigenous (Quechua-speaking) self-taught writer Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. Of all these three, I found Christopher Columbus’ journal interesting in many ways and thus this response will be focused on him. … More Week 2: The Meeting of Two Worlds

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