GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Settler Colonialism, Settlement Geography
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Logic saying it was empty so people thought of it as empty. The result: one of the greatest catastrophes in the human history, almost 1/5th of the people, dying. Having an infectious disease in your community does not (should not) equal your land being taken away from you. You need to plant settlers on the other side of the ocean to sustain the connections that are forged across the ocean. This planting and the template for a colonial empire resulted from the activities from. Only 5 years separate the voyages of columbus and. But more than 100 year separate the founding of satna domingo by bartolomeo. 100 + separates that from the founding of quebec, jamestown etc. Over a century of time in which spain is doing a lot on the continent. Portugal, they are both significant as they begin to sail down the west coast of africa for trade.