Categorization in Civilization: Newness and Expansion of Cosmology

Abstract

Conclusion The discovery of the New World brought wealth to the Old, along with a great paradigm shift. The Old World had to reexamine and redevelop its worldview in order to make room for the new peoples that they had encountered. This process went through stages and spurts, from transference and justification, to a digestion of newfound material and a re-categorization, which expanded the worldview instead of interchanging and slotting peoples into categories that, generally fit at best. This process was a shared experience by all Europeans that came to the New World, but the Spanish led the way as they were the first to begin the process. Utilizing faith and crusading zeal, the Spanish justified their conquest of the New World by simply interchanging the identity of the