COLONIZATION
A term used by scholars to describe how colonization is still a story that whites tell themselves about being the good guys.
What is neo-colonialism?
People often incorrectly believe that these trials were larger than the European ones.
What are the Salem witch trials?
(According to Greek myth) she turned her back on Medusa after Medusa was sexually assaulted.
Who is Athena?
This is considered part of the hero's journey
What is _________ (many answers are acceptable)?
This term conjoins objectifying women with stealing empty lands when justifying colonizing.
What is the term, Virgin?
This sect of Christianity was considered threatening to the Catholic church for one because women held leadership positions.
What are the Cathars?
After becoming a monster, Hermes is shown in art representation wearing one of her symbols.
What is the caduceus?
The male hero in early myth and art was known as this.
What is the year spirit (also dying/resurrection god, shaman hunter)
This type of colonization includes having colonizers remain on stolen land into perpetuity.
What is settler colonialism?
Deeply rooted traditions that honored the growing and harvest season may have definitely been threatening to the church.
What is paganism?
It is a symbol that is usually seen and beneficial (ie, NOT EVIL) when associated with cultures where women are revered.
What is the snake?
This heroine used storytelling to survive and ultimately save other women from a horrible fate.
Who is Scheherazade?
Typically, conquistadors used these three phases when they began to colonize the Americas
What are the:
Virgin Territory phase
Plunder Economy phase
Idolatry Campaign
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This land once used by the peasantry, taken by the nobility and church, contributed to the impoverization of the working class.
What is the commonlands (also: land enclosures)?
This event in Europe wiped out over half of the population and repopulating became important.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This way of sharing stories and information was used by women for thousands of years before male authors put them into print as fairy tales.
What are old wives tales? (Oral tradition)
It started in Europe and was used to subjugate indigenous women in the Americas
What are the witch hunts (and other introduced narratives of devil worship)?
These two terms became normalized during the years of the witch hunts as the working class began to suffer more and were penalized for their poverty.
What is criminalization and pauperization?
This wisdom that experiments with gifts from the natural world and the five senses used by local midwives and wise women proved threatening to the church.
What is herbal knowledge? (Empiricism)
Heroines like Mulan, encounter this when moving beyond boundaries of gender construction.
What is liminality?