Eric Wolf: Europe and the People without History.

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The fifteenth century American continent had a diversity of native communities, which were characterized by well-organized life forms. From a social system based on hierarchical stratification of the population, mostly politically focused on a single authority, but the most striking aspect of these communities was its economic structure and function with others. Each community had its own territory, demarcated and protected by armies. Farming systems had very complex and diverse, which means from the compression of belonging to the natural space around them, this is due to their advanced systems of dikes and canals for irrigation and personal use, large quarries stepped on slopes, the divine gods associated with fertility and prosperity of their land. Thus understood very well that any human influence on nature, also fell one way or another about them. Most of the relationship between these communities and the physical space was total respect and harmony. Cultural systems within the organization of these societies were very important, kinship and identity were within the ideological structure bond strength and elemental push to bring out the progress of these communities.
Economically, its relations of production allowed to see the purchase and sale system, where each community produced a number of products, depending on the situation of their land. Thus, profits could be redistributed among all members of the community as a kind of self-sufficiency, or exchange goods as a form of barter. Although the most interesting and complex occurred in the great empires, as these can provide an overview of the geographical space colonization, which is understood in the wide expanses and amount of small communities subject to them. Where each community was required to exploit the land and give their earnings to the empire, in exchange for security and belonging to it, a sort of feudal system. But it was the vision of expansion and conquest which formed and mobilized to those companies, leading them to create large, modern human settlement throughout the Americas.
This will lose the idea of Europe as the only source of civilization and the birthplace of all the myths, to present to groups of men forgotten by history, they had their own culture, development and progress.



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