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Chapter 1 deals with what Restall calls "the Myth of exceptional men" — the idea that the Spanish Conquest was enabled by certain outstanding individuals such as Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro and their personal courage and innovative strategies. The myth of Columbus developed in North America in the 1800s, when historians generated interest ...
Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986.
However, a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars, such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018 [37]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003), among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which ...
Today the myth of superiority takes other forms - for example the belief that natives lost to the spaniards because they didn't have alphabetic writing, or because they didn't have guns. Its all in the book rally - I reccomend reading it.·Maunus· · ƛ · 11:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC) Where was 'racial superiority' mentioned?
Restall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Matthew Restall (born 1964), British and American historian of Latin America and of pop music; Emma Restall Orr (born 1965), British neo-druid, animist, priest, poet, and author
In a recent review, Jacob J. Sauer of Vanderbilt University says "There is no other book I would recommend more to colleagues--or to anybody interested in learning more about archaeological myths and mysteries." [1] Many reviewers commented favorably on the book's emphasis on using the scientific method. In his review of the 2nd edition, F ...
Matthew 7:25 is the twenty-fifth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues the Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders.
It also links back the Matthew 5:1, the first verse of the Sermon on the Mount. [1] "Finished saying theses things" is a standard phrase used by Matthew to end a discourse by Jesus, also being found at Matthew 11:1, 13:53, 19:1, and 26:1. It makes clear that the Gospel is concluding a section. [2] The term may be based on Old Testament sources. [3]