How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy

A good example of an Iroquois assembly meeting is this painting titled “The Trial of Red Jacket” by John Mix Stanley – source The exposure to New World peoples sparked in 1492 by the voyages of Columbus profoundly changed Europe. As reflected in the fabulous world building of the 1726 satire Gulliver’s Travels, European imaginations were just as amazed by New World peoples as they were its exotic plants and animals. What is largely underapprecia…