Week 1- Communication

I believe that most of the problems that people in those times encountered were because lack of communication or the inability to do so. There are many examples of this in both classes' pieces of literature, and the videos we have watched. The first example is from American Studies, the documentary we watched about Guns Germs and Steel. Both groups of people were not exactly sure what to do with one another because of the fact that they could not communicate very well at all. This led to each of them trying to outdo the other, which in turn led to the demolition of the Incas. Another example is from Lit. Equiano was a slave from Africa, and only knew the African version of slavery. However, nothing could have compared him to the form of slavery that was use in the Americas. Because he could not communicate with any Americans, he at times possibly didn't even know at times what he was supposed to be doing. The last example also comes from Studies. This one has to do with the Indians of the Massachusetts Bay area. They believed that they were signing a temporary contract that would allow them to still utilize the lands they had given away at any time they pleased. However this was not the case and led to thousand of deaths and a few Puritans dying. So from theses example its pretty clear to me that communication, especially when dealing with a new people, is vitally important, because if you cannot converse in one way or another, history show that bad things will happen.