For homework this weekend:
1) There will be (at long last...) a Change Over Time essay on Monday. The topic will be Europe, chapters 17 and 20.
2) Before we move along from the Crusades, on your blog, post: Do you think it would be possible for the Europeans (if you read their documents) to have a positive/complimentary view of the Muslims? If you read the Muslim documents, would it be possible for them to have a positive/complimentary view of the Europeans? Why or why not?
3) Read in the textbook pages 539-540, focus on Bentley and Ziegler's transmission of the work of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Then read what he had to say for himself on Project Gutenberg's website: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm#CHAPTER_XCII. (you can also find it in the Project Gutenberg app, if you prefer...) Chapter XCII is the passage B&Z draw from for their introduction to Chapter 21. Be ready to talk about if you think they relayed it accurately, or if you think they missed the mark at any point. What tone is set for you, the reader, by their choice of this selection? Was that a good choice or a bad choice, in your view?
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