SAST 303 Lecture 5: British East India Company
31 Jan 2019
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They were competing with each so they stole with each other. Kings and queens would give permission with a royal warrant to their sailors to steal from other countries. Europeans had no idea there were the americas, no one else probably did either. The theory that chinese or japanese got to americas before europeans has no valid proof as of yet. If the place had an advanced or primitive civilization was the distinction. The colony they set up in civilized places was like a trading port. In places where the europeans considered primitive (countries in s. america, australia, So the europeans felt it was okay to set up real colonies where they would have their own native people settle. French in canada followed by the british. All the places that were real colonies were considered at that time to be primitive. There was no policy in france, spain, portugal to send their citizens to go there and settle.
