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- Why is there a paradox of the paradise and the cannibalism of the New World? 1 advertising function (finance futher journeys) 2. very often was violence involved and therefore the Europeans put the Natives as cannibalists
- What does the early picture of America combine? both traits: the utopian and the cannibalistic!
- The most important cultural and historical impetus for the development of literature in and about America is... ? discovery of the New World (15th and 16th century)
- The reason for Columbus's journey? (and how did he go?) to find a new sea passage to India and he didn't go around the Cape of Good Hope, but westward!
- Far East of Asia and extreme West of the Atlantic were seen as ..... by ..XY..? as utopain places in European imagination by the Greco-Romans and the medieval texts
- medieval = deutsch? mittelalterlich
- Who described the fabled State of Atlantis as situated in the Ocean beyond Pillars of Hercules? Plato in the 4th century B.C.
- Christopher Columbus (When, What)? 15/16 century: He set foot on the New World: was confronted with the unknown territory: gaps of knowledge were filled with utopian fantasies of Far East and WEst
- Columbus's first reports equated the New World with... ? the Golden Age or the earthly paradise (plentiful resources: favorable climate + several harvests a year)
- Ovid? wrote METAMORPHOSES: Golden Age as a nourishing mother (alma mater): who provides for her inhabitants paradise in the New World
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- one of the earliest depictions of Native Americans? Woodcut of 1505 (oldest known woodcut shows the bipolar dimension of cannibalism and paradise in the New World) female Native in the pose of a nourishing mother, but cannibals are in the background!
- Spain forcibly secured its influence in Central and South America by whom? Hernán Cortés: conquest of Aztec Empire 1519 in Mexico Pizzaro: destruction of the Incan Empire in Peru 1533
- The English king Henry VII sent whom on an exploratory journey? John Cabot: into the Far North of America. Tried to reach Asia, but landed in Newfoundland --> misstook it for China!
- when did Champlain live? 2nd half of the 16th century and 1st half of the 17th century (he founded Quebec 1608)
- when did Verrazano live? 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century
- When did Vespucci live? 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century
- When did Cabot live? 2nd half of the 15th century