After watching The Meeting of Two Worlds as well as some additional readings, I feel that my knowledge on Christopher Columbus has definitely broadened. However, it has broadened in a sense that what I thought was a rather black-and-white topic, has a much more nuanced approach in reality. It struck to realize how the names […]
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
The voyage of Christopher Columbus is very important to us today. It continues to be a very controversial subject as he was the first explorer to have lasting impacts on the America’s and their societies. We first learnt that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas and then we are informed about the impacts that this had […]
