Encounter and Confrontation represents mans desire to make the world his own even at the

expense of killing off cultures that are unfamiliar to him. The textbook best summarizes the
chapter by saying: This inclination to see a thriving civilization as uncivilized because it is
unlike ones own is typical of the attitude of Westerners toward the peoples with whom they
came into contact with in the Age of Encounter. Other peoples were exactly that the Other a
separate category of being that freed Western colonizers from any obligation to identify these
peoples as equal, or even similar, to themselves. I did not complete a Cultural Creation before
this one was completed, so my creating a poem satisfies my better meeting expectations here.
In creating it, I made a poem that represents the diffusion between the Indian/Muslim culture and
the European culture, which was more warmly welcomed than any other encounter mentioned in
the text.