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Keara commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

I am curious to know if any of their ideas and understandings of the stars are the same or similar between the Europeans and the Inca. You could also look at how they measured time with the sky. Where any of their […]
Keara commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

One thing that you could look at is how accurate the maps made at this time were. If the maps were not so accurate, did this lead to any incidents of traveling to the wrong place? You could also look at how these […]
Keara commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

Great idea for your research. One thing that you could also think about is marriages between colonizers and native women. Were they forced? How did they bring their own culture into a Christian household? I would […]
dcox20 commented on the post, Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This was honestly an idea I was thinking about doing for this research paper because I think it’s so interesting. Using Victors and Vanquished sounds like a good idea. But maybe you could find an account by Cortez […]
dcox20 commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This sounds like a cool project Zachary. My one recommendation would be to narrow down your search. I think you focus on a specific part of Latin America because the question you’re asking is very broad. But […]
dcox20 commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

Awesome idea Katrina. I would recommend looking for a book similar to Victors and Vanquished that focuses on Argentina. You could also check out the internet archive, which is something I used to primary source […]
Greg Wiles wrote a new post on the site Geomorphology 6 years, 3 months ago

This 40 cm thick matrix- supported diamict surprised the group.

The group looking somewhat surprised.
Jordan Becker wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Africa isn’t prosperity but rather failure. An article called A Hopeful Continent, from the news source, The Economist explains that in most cases this is […]
robby wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

Imperialism created the Africa we see today. For example, in British colonies, “colonial policy also depended on constructions of racial differences” (Pierre 18) and in the French colonies as “’Blacks’ (or ‘Afri […]
Aidan L'hommedieu wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

In our lectures concerning the colonization of the African continent, we briefly discussed a topic that I believe still cripples it to this day. When Europe decided to colonize, they needed to find a sort of […]
cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

The process of decolonization in Africa changed the course Africa was on forever. From a continent largely occupied by European powers to a continent of independent nations. One of the negative ramifications of […]
meschinger22 wrote a new post on the site Latin American Revolutions 6 years, 3 months ago

Gender and Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution
Midterm Question:
How to define terms – can examples be used?

Yes, examples can be used; clarity is key!

E-mail Prof. Holt ASAP if you want to work on a […]
Eric Wasserzug wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

The process of decolonization in Africa had many interesting, positive and negative ramifications for the continent and the entire world. Regardless of the questions of how, why, and in what way decolonization […]
Vu Dao wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

The struggle for Africa as a colony between imperialist countries made relations between these countries tense, stimulating chauvinism and belligerence. Conflicts among European countries caused a series of […]
Jonathan Velazquez wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

An important and controversial occurrence in Africa’s recent history is the racist nature of representations of Africa by foreign states, being mostly European. Racist portrayals of Africans—most often against Sub […]
Shahroz Zaman wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

Throughout this week, via our lectures and readings we have been focusing mostly on Africa as a continent and the catastrophic changes brought about by European colonialism. We examined the dramatic effects the […]
Paris Stirrat wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

Africa is a very good example of what happens when decolonization occurs the right way, as well as the wrong. By 1963 all of Africa was independent of European rule, Rhodesia is the only exception (Lecture). […]
Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

This weeks reading and lectures included primary themes of the decolonization in Africa, imperialism, and the overarching racist views of Africa itself.

Europe and other western powers had a lot of influence on […]
Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 3 months ago

I think that Africa is a fantastic region to really expose the motives and feelings towards imperialism that Europeans had. With East Asia, in my opinion, more cut off from the western world, Africa was seen as […]
Andrew S commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This is a really interesting topic. I like your primary source. I think it would be very interesting to compare that map to a current day map to see the differences in the depiction of the Americas.
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