ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: German South-West Africa, Indian Removal Act
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Anthro lecture 19: eyes of the conquered- what was their views. Impacts of imperial expansion on the colonized: depopulation: populations all over the world probably crashed, losing people, disease: colonized population crash. Spreading usually occurs over time and a huge section of people are dead because they aren"t immune to it. If we go into the days of columbus, there was 7 million people but later, only. All the knowledge and technology is lost: wars of conquest and subjugation: c. i. Usually local people fought back and died in the process. (german southwest africa) c. ii. Herero: germans kicked them out because their land was conquered and were put into an inferior area. The herero was driven into a war with them to get their land back. A population of 100,000 was reduced to 20,000 people. 4/5 (80%) is reduced: genocide: taking someone"s life. What made the us d. ii. do to these nas.
