Exploring the Early Americas Aftermath of the Encounter

The encounter between the Americas and Europe changed the deeply irreversible civilization. In many of the dramatic changes, this section deals with three. "Language and Religion" is a documentation of the efforts of Spain missionaries to convert to locals and record their language. "Empire's competition" reveals how other European powers, and ultimately the newly established America, are competing for status and control in the United States. Finally, in the exhibition "Recording new knowledge", we will examine two areas of natural history and geography. In later European encounters, we recorded a wealth of "new world" information that often challenges the early concepts and the world view.

The next exhibition will focus on European exploration in North America and their involvement with indigenous peoples, as described in their travel records. The authors include travelers, missionaries, expelled explorers, and various types of explorers such as 18th and 19th century travelers and settlers. In this exhibition we use archives and special collections of the University of Ottawa Library, the University of Ottawa Library, the archives of the Carleton University Library and rare books (and rare books such as images and maps) in the research collection. The exhibition involved 10 projects edited using the Dublin Core metadata standard and was contextualized with the help of a description of the major historical events that occurred between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Many of the books written by indigenous people were destroyed during conquest of the Americas and encounters between European and American civilizations. When the Spaniards conquered Yucatan in the 16th century, the Aztecs had plenty of books. But most of the people were destroyed by conquerors and Catholic priests, except for pastor Bartolome de la Casas work. In particular, many of Yucatan 's books were destroyed by the bishop Diego de Randa in July 1562. Deranda wrote as follows. "Because there is nothing to be regarded as a superstition or a devil's lie, we have found many books in these characters." Ironically, most of the books destroyed by the people of Europe It is biased and based on the Aztec version.