... economics, and idealistic curiosity. Christopher Columbus As the first European explorer to land in the New World, the works of Christopher Columbus can rightfully be considered the earliest forms of American literature. And, as Columbus did not comprehend the significance of much of what he surveyed, even his journals could arguably be termed works of "fiction". This is due to the fact ... . Columbus can therefore be categorized as one of the European traditionalists that entered into the New World with the unbreakable belief that any inhabitants therein were "savages", and that these n...

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... economics, and idealistic curiosity. Christopher Columbus As the first European explorer to land in the New World, the works of Christopher Columbus can rightfully be considered the earliest forms of American literature. And, as Columbus did not comprehend the significance of much of what he surveyed, even his journals could arguably be termed works of "fiction". This is due to the fact ... . Columbus can therefore be categorized as one of the European traditionalists that entered into the New World with the unbreakable belief that any inhabitants therein were "savages", and that these n...

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... work, the Dominicans have done much to aid and foster the development of art. Their cloisters have produced such distinguished painters as Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo. Their contributions to literature have been chiefly in theology and philosophy, and they have produced outstanding writers such as St Thomas Aquinas and St Albertus Magnus. The important medieval encyclopedia Speculum Majus was the ... the part of the parochial clergy, whose rights often seemed to be invaded by the friars. The Dominicans played the leading part in the evangelization of South America; the first Americ...

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