Perspectives and Context Make a Difference

   This class has brought multiple new perspectives to light. All throughout my history classes, I have learned about the winner’s point of view and what they wanted us to know. They made it seem like what they were doing was the right thing to do. But now that I have learned a little of the native’s point of view everything that I previously learned was blown way out of proportion. The one thing that stuck with me throughout the past two weeks was how the Europeans described the natives as uncivilized but yet when we talked about everything the Europeans have done it seems that they are more uncivilized. Such as when we were talking about the Aztecs doing human sacrifices our history book makes it seem that thousands were killed this way but yet only 126 skulls were actually found in the area this would happen. But yet the European religion has the same concept as people without the same view were stoned and burned at the stake. In my mind being stoned or burned at the stake would be way worse. So in reality Europeans can be seen as being uncivilized. 

Another thing to go with this that I found interesting was that sort of ties into perspectives was the activity we did in Professor Serrata’s part of the class. I find that it ties in because once again context is needed to know the true facts of something. Just guessing and making things up could cause miscommunications or misconceptions.