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Keara wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
In Pierre Mossut’s letter to Marquis de Gallifet, he mentions that there is a driver behind the actions of the slaves that he does not understand, “There is a motor that powers them and that keeps powering them […]
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Keara commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years 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 […]
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Keara commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years 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 […]
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Keara commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years 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 […]
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Keara wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
For my research, I think I would like to research Aztec birth and midwifery. This is a topic that has fascinated me for a long time and something that I think will be interesting as well as being something more […]
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Keara wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago
I think one potential research question that I would possibly like to follow is how the colonization of Latin America changed the environment. I think this is important to study because this time period of […]
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Keara wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago
Today’s class was guided by three questions: What kind of evidence can we use to analyze pre-Columbus Latin America?, What is material culture and how can we use it as evidence?, and How did the local […]
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Keara wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago
One of the reasons I decided to take this class was because I feel that we are taught only about North America during the time of colonization in the New World. I would like to learn about colonization in Latin […]
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