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[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change by Oliver Milman in New York 31/1/19 The Guardian] | [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-change by Oliver Milman in New York 31/1/19 The Guardian] | ||
Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492. | Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492. | ||
=====Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/accept-our-king-our-god-or-else-the-senseless-requirement-spanish-colonizers-used-to-justify-their-bloodshed-in-the-americas-223527 by Diego Javier Luis 2/10/24 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so. | |||
