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That sounds really interesting. I think that it could also be really cool to study how the natives felt about helping the Spanis and Portuguese after the true effects of the Europeans became clear, and whether or […]

This sounds like a really interesting research idea. I think it will be especially interesting to focus on the effects of how Europeans ideas about food impacted the natives, because that aspect is traditionally […]

This is an awesome idea! Last semester, I got to spend a week and a half with a Mapuche community in a small town called Curarrehue in Chile during a study abroad program and learned so much about their struggle […]

I think one thing you could possibly do is see if mate was not only drank in the New World, but if it ever made its way back to Europe. We hear of many different New World foods, especially crops such as maize, […]

This is awesome! I studied abroad in Chile for a bit last semester, and maté was also a huge thing there because of the influence of a lot of the communities in the Andes. From what I saw, maté was generally d […]

Shoutout geography on this one! I think it would be cool to see if you can find multiple maps from indigenous perspectives seeing what scale of the land they had around them. Cool to compare how these would look […]

This is a great question– I also think it’ll be interesting to see how the European colonizers’ conceptions of race differed and had a long-term impact on racial dynamics within Colonial Hispaniola. I think it […]

An under represented topic I believe. Very cool idea. I think it would be cool to try to see how much music pre-contact has survived today. As well as seeing the music scene in Latin America today and whether it […]

For this topic I think it would be cool to examine Dona Marina. Was someone such as herself, who aided the Europeans, forced to abide by such gender norms? Or was she more exempt from conforming due to willingness […]

This topic will be very interesting as I feel like it is not very well thought about or looked into by any average historian learning about Latin America. I am very intrigued by this topic and hope to hear more about it soon!

I feel as though understanding the role of cartography in this time period would really open many peoples eyes to so much during this time of cultural development. I feel as though this will be very interesting to […]

This topic is one that could lead to a lot of interesting discovery. Religion seems to often define a culture and how it developed and Aztec beliefs would be especially intriguing to follow and see how it shaped […]

I think this is a great research topic, because I’ve always wondered about the reality of the Aztec religion in particular, since in a lot of modern and historical descriptions it’s depicted as excessively violent […]

I like this idea a lot. I think it would be really interesting to contemplate the motivations behind native peoples aiding the Spanish and Portugese in their colonial ambitions, and how well they understood the […]

I think this is a really cool idea. I’d definitely be interested to see the evolution of how maps of the Americas evolved as more land was ‘discovered’ by Europeans, and how it advanced to include the larger land […]

One thing that you could possibly look at is the past relationships of the Aztecs and those native people that helped the Spanish. There could be a possible hatred between the two groups, or maybe the natives that […]

Very interesting post! I appreciate the explanation of the genetic mutation that gave rise to these cute critters, as well as the source at the end!