This week we'll be working on Spanish Conquests and Encounters. In the readings for Monday's class, Columbus, de Las Casas, and de Vaca all write impressions of their contact with new places and peoples. Please select either places or peoples for your focus, and write a 200-300 word piece that puts all three writers in conversation on the topic. You might write about the similarities and differences in attitudes towards the beauty or fertility of these places across the writers, and even within their own accounts for the matter. Or, you might consider the various attitudes towards the cross-cultural contacts all of these writers not only witnessed but in which they participated.
Please post your blog writing by 11:59pm September 4th so I have a chance to read them in the morning before we meet for class.
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