Week 2: Meeting of Two Worlds:
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12 th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not. Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is ev...