Show:
That's what I'm talking a-Blaut
Kiss my Aztecs
More Blaut
Potpourri
More Potpourri
100
In contrast to "independent invention," this term describes the process by which Europeans supposedly spread their knowledge, culture, tools, and so on with the rest of the world.
What is diffusion?
100
This was the seventh omen experienced by the Aztecs before Cortes' arrival, and it had a mirror on its head.
What is a bird?
100
The need for this massive undertaking was at the center of the "arid, despotic Asia" theory
What is irrigation?
100
This city was the birthplace of Mohammed.
What is Mecca?
100
This term refers to the totality of technology and how it is used, by whom and according to what social structure, in order to make things society needs to stay alive.
What is "mode of production"?
200
This theory, which claimed biblical and scientific support, proposed that white people were not even of the same biological species as people of other races.
What is polygenesis?
200
When the Spaniards arrived, the Aztecs thought they might be one of these.
What are gods?
200
This theory embraced many psychological attributes, but usually included inventiveness, a capacity for abstract thought, and the ability to make sound moral judgments.
What is European rationality?
200
In astrology, the human body represents a smaller version of the universe, also called one of these.
What is a microcosmos?
200
This was issues by Emperor Constantine in 313 AD and legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
300
This word is a label for all the beliefs that postulate past or present superiority of Europeans over non-Europeans.
What is Eurocentrism?
300
This was the name given to the night Cortes and his men abandoned Tenochtitlan and the Aztecs avenged themselves.
What is "The Night of Sorrows"?
300
Although traditionally associated with Europe, Blaut uses this term to describe the basic mode of production of other class-stratified agricultural societies of the Eastern Hemisphere.
What is feudalism?
300
The Requirimiento specifically mentions St. Peter, who was the first one of these.
What is a Pope?
300
This social structure is characterized by a mass of peasant farmers, whose agricultural surplus is appropriated by a small class of landlords.
What is feudalism?
400
He proposed a theory in which finite natural resources were stressed by exponential population growth resulting in famine, pestilence, or other disasters.
Who is Malthus?
400
After breaking out in Tenochtitlan, this lasted for 70 days and killed a great many Indians.
What is a plague?
400
This is another term for incipient capitalism, or near-capitalism, or adolescent capitalism.
What is protocapitalism?
400
This stone was venerated by the diverse tribes with their individual animist religions during Mohammed's time.
What is the Kaaba?
400
The "fall of Rome" did not include the eastern half, referred to as this Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
500
This doctrine consists of several different theories, one of which claimed that the climate was not very suitable for agriculture.
What is tropical-nastiness?
500
The Spaniards massacred many Aztecs during one of these, held in honor of the god Huitzilpopochtli.
What is a fiesta?
500
This type of diffusion was constantly taking place through a tight network of mercantile-maritime cities.
What is criss-cross diffusion?
500
Motecuhzoma believed that Cortéz was this god returning.
What is Quetzalcoatl?
500
This discredited theory had many different explanations: the nuclear family, freedom-loving peasants, love marriage, population control avoiding Malthusian stagnation, Christianity's unique impetus to innovation and technological development, etc.
What is the "European Miracle"?