the reading “Power and unpredictability, conquistadors and native peoples”. This is Chapter 1 of the book of Jon Thares Davidann and Marc Jason Gilbert: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History 1453-Present, New York, Routledge, 2019.
A) What were the European perceptions of the world beyond Europe at the time of Columbus?
B) What were the Taino perceptions of the Spaniards who arrived in the New World?