Status Updates From Christendom Destroyed: Euro...

"Jesuit Fransisco Cabral was reluctant to go into theological details with his Japanese neophytes lest they became experts and created heresies." LMAO skill issue. "What if the people I'm preaching to on my missionary trip get better at religion than me (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)"

I gotta do more research on the history of the separation of church and state. What do you mean the protestant reformation normalized civic courts? There has to be a prior example.

Really like the phrase "communal mechanisms of repair"

"[Alonso de Nájera's] solution: a line of forts, a permanent army, the extermination of the local Indians and their replacement by more quiescent Africans." Shit man imagine rebelling so well the Spaniards give up on trying to enslave you.

Okay now he's just making up words.

I'm glad that Greengrass has a grasp on who he's writing for. Sometimes in academics a concept or definition cannot be substituted with a layman term and Greengrass successfully explains each term before he drops it.

Listening to this at work. The main parts of the book that I couldn’t get into the first time I tried to read this I’ve gotten through. That was mainly information about general changes in things like farm size, family organization, and changes in astronomical science. The coverage of alchemy and magic and how those could result in real science advancement. Now onto hard history and war.