Humanities Week 8

Read from  DISCOURSES OF RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY, OF THE BEST STATE OF A COMMONWEALTH to the part, about a third of the way thru the Document, that ends, “When he saw that we were very intent upon it he paused a little to recollect himself, and began in this manner:—”)

When he wrote Utopia, More would have been familiar with the written accounts of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the America.  Review what your text says are the parallels and then cite examples from More’s book to write a Brief Essay Response explaining how his descriptions of Utopia were influenced by accounts of the New World. 

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