A Construção do Mundo: Colonização e a Divisão Ocidente-Oriente

Section role: supports the 'A Construção do Mundo: Colonização e a Divisão Ocidente-Oriente' section while the teacher explains how European colonial expansion created the cultural and political dichotomy between the West and the East. Slides: (1) Title — 'A Invenção do Ocidente e o Sistema Colonial'; (2) A Divisão não é Geográfica — bullets: question why Brazil is considered Western despite being in the southern hemisphere, debunking the purely geographical myth; (3) O Mercantilismo e o Pacto Colonial — bullets: definition of the exclusive commercial monopoly between metropolis and colony, the accumulation of capital; (4) Eurocentrismo — bullets: definition of the worldview placing Europe at the center of development and culture, introduction of terms Hegemony and Periphery; (5) A Invenção do Outro — bullets: how European powers defined themselves as 'Western' (civilized, Christian, modern) to justify the domination of the 'East' and the Americas (seen as exotic, backward, or savage); (6) Exemplos Históricos — bullets: imposition of European languages and religions, transforming colonies into peripheral extensions of the West; (7) Pergunta de Verificação — bullets: 'O sistema colonial visava apenas o lucro financeiro ou também a dominação cultural?'. Closing slide: 'Como o passado colonial ainda influencia a nossa percepção do mundo atual?' — sets up the analysis exercises in the next section.

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