Partial Notes for The American Spirit Chap. 1
The American Spirit Chap. 1 A123 C12 D234 Kim Sun Sept. 8, 2011 New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.- A.D. 1769 A.1. Visualizing the New World (1505, 1509) Amerigo Vespucci (16th century explorer) wrote letter on his New World experience which was published across Europe with illustrations drawn by artists that never saw it A.2. Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547) Ex of ?Renaissance man?: Juan Gines de Sepulveda, a Spaniard that studied in Renaissance Italy, famous as theologian, philosopher, historian, astronomer Sepulveda was student of Aristotle and made distinction of ?civilized? Greeks and barbarians