Thursday, September 27, 2018

Chapter 3 Document

Germania by Tacitus

  • Germans- not mixed with other races through immigration or intercourse (aboriginal)
    • Appear as an unmixed raced, all look the same since its all pure German blood
  • Asks why anyone would leave Asia, Africa or Italy for sullen Germany
    • With exception of it being their home
  • Ancient songs, only way of recording their past 
  • Choose kings by birth, but they don't have unlimited power
  • Generals lead by example more than they exert authority
  • Priests have the real authority
  • Believe women have certain sanctity and prescience
  • Worship deity mercury, human sacrifices
  • Strict marriage code
    • Adultery, husbands power to dish out punishment
  • No cities, live scattered 
  • No laughs 
  • Slaves look over the house

Question #2:
  • Reliable Statements
    • Kings coming from birth 
    • Little to no intermarriages 
    • Strict marriage code, expecting spouses to be faithful to each other
    • Worshipping mercury 
  • Not as reliable
    • No laughter
    • Saying the country is sullen
    • Human sacrifices
    • Punishment for cheating

No comments:

Post a Comment

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: The World's of the Fifteenth Century  Shapes of human communities Paleolithic persistence: Australia and North America...