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- From: LDAA@UDESVM.BITNET
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: Cortez, Pizarro and Montesquieu
- Message-ID: <93022.123616LDAA@UDESVM.BITNET>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:36:16 GMT
- Organization: Universit de Sherbrooke
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- In the "Discours sur les motifs qui doivent nous encourager aux sciences",
- Montesquieu says that an important factor in the invaders victory was
- that the indigenous population thought they were surnatural because of
- their appearance and their technology.
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- Is this
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- a) false
- b) some grain of truth in it
- c) true
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- Pierre Blackburn
- departement de philosophie
- College de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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