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Entry Week 5





“People who write and read history have gotten used to seeing terrible things such as conquest and murder as the price of progress.”

 Archivo:Felix Parra Episodios de la conquista La matanza de Cholula.jpg
 Painting by: Felix Parra

This quote from this week’s readings really stuck with me.  I think we are taught history, or at least I was in my elementary school years, in a way that does not represent what truly happened and it is very one sided.  I went to school for my early elementary years in Mexico, and this is also true for what I learned there.  I have embedded a drawing of the “Matanza de Cholula” or “the Cholula Massacre” by Hernan Cortez a "conquistador".  This was also very criticized years later by Bartolome de las Casas as being unnecessary and merciless.  As future teachers, we need to start teaching our students that everyone played an important role in the past, and that it is very important to honor every party involved without making excuses for any side or embellishing what happened.

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