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[https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice by Dani Anthony ORIGINS] | [https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice by Dani Anthony ORIGINS] | ||
This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. Bartolomé de las Casas, sickened by the exploitation and physical degradation of the indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean, gave up his extensive land holdings and slaves and traveled to his homeland in Spain in 1515 to petition the Spanish Crown to stop the abuses that European colonists were inflicting upon the natives of the New World. | This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. Bartolomé de las Casas, sickened by the exploitation and physical degradation of the indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean, gave up his extensive land holdings and slaves and traveled to his homeland in Spain in 1515 to petition the Spanish Crown to stop the abuses that European colonists were inflicting upon the natives of the New World. | ||
=====European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/european-colonisation-of-the-americas-killed-10-of-world-population-and-caused-global-cooling-110549 by Alexander Koch 31/1/19 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60m people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas which devastated the native population and the resultant collapse of farming in the Americas was so significant that it may have even cooled the global climate. | |||
