Forum Discussion: i will provide the readings and lecture that will help answer the discussion. The reading by Seymour Phillips and the lecture slides by Dr. Michael Soldatenko on “Medieval Dreams and Renaissance Fantasies” address the earliest notions of other peoples and cultures within the history of Western Civilization. Since the time of the Greeks, whose philosophers are the pillars of Western thought, the imagined visions of other peoples in other lands has been imbued with descriptions of fantastic creatures, imagined beasts, and savage monsters. By the time of Medieval Europe, the accounts and travelogues of explorers into foreign lands became the basis through which the social construction of non-Europeans as “monstrous races” became associated with the native inhabitants of the lands under scrutiny by the colonial gaze.