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Group Seating / Group Interview / Syllabus / Three Questions
Introduction-Your map of Latin America
Reading Specialists
Discussion: What is Culture(s)? / What is Civilization?
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Purchase book and begin reading Ancient America on the Eve of Conquest
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Reading specialists / HisStory / History repeating itself / Cultural History Now / Research Themes
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Continue reading through Aztec Warfare and The Halls of Moctezuma
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Groups after add/drop / Pics
Discussion:
What is Culture(s)? / cultural inheritance and survivaal / enculturation / subcultures / cultural diffusion and globalization
Continue reading through An Aztec Mother Advises Her Daughter
September 2015
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Octavio Paz / Totemism (1) / mother-earth, snake-water, jaguar-land, Feathered Serpent (1,2) / clan to theocratic state / cycle of life and Venus cycle / Carlos Fuentes
Discussion Specialists Aztecs
Last Day to ADD/DROP
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Continue reading from “Mayan Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture” through “Mayan Origin Myth”
Reminder: There is a D2L post due each week.
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Discussion Specialists Aztecs / History of Religion / Compare elements of Pre-Columbian cultures / Quetzalcoatl (1) / Chp 1
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Continue reading from “How the Inca formed a Nation” through “Two views of the Incan Empire”
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Discussion Specialists / Discussion of Chp 1
Finish all of Chp 1, read “Hispanic Society on the Eve of Conquest” through “The Spanish Character” in Chp 2.
Chapter 2 Reading Specialists
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Labor Day
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Read “The Man Columbus” through the end of Chp 2.
Read “Conquest” through “Discovery of the Pacific” in Chp 3
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Latin American Cities / Culture / Angel Rama - Ciudad letrada (1,2,3) /Indigenous Cities? / Tenochtitlán (1,2,3,4,5,6)/ Cuzco (1,2,3) / clothe and rank / privileged spaces and gazes / Buried cities (1,2,3)
Civilizational commonalities: caluac/varayoc; pulque/chicha; calpulli/ayllu; tiquitlato/mit’a
Journal 1
Read through “Lope de Aguirre” in Chp 3
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Finish reading Chapter 3 / Last chance for Journal 1 notes (Chapter 1&2)
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Do your bibliographic research and format your preliminary bibliography.
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Prelim. Bib.
Last Day to Submit Incomplete
Read up to “The Portuguese Colonizer” in Chapter 4.
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Discuss Chapter 3 / Balboa and Leoncico (1,2, 3) / Columbus / Cortés and Malinche
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Discuss Chapter 3 /Feudalism and Conquest / Tenochtitlán (Matt) / Rendezvous (Michael) / New Laws (Demetri) / Lope de Aguirre (Caroline) / Cabeza de Vaca (1,2,3)
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Start Reading Chapter 5: Through “The Potosí Mine”
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Guns, germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Read Chapter 5: Through “The Great Fair at Portobello”
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Finish watching Guns, germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond (30min +)
Discuss Pope’s visit and how it applies to Latin American history.
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Prepare for Journal turn-in
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Discuss Chapter 4 Conditions of conquest / Slavery / De las Casas vs. Ginés de Sepúlveda / The Hapsburg (1,2,3)
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Finish Reading Chapter 5, start reading Chapter 6
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COPLAC
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Journal 2
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