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European discovery of America (view source)
Revision as of 11:31, October 9, 2007
, 11:31, October 9, 2007The Spanish conquerors of the Middle American and Andean worlds immediately overwhelmed their ill-equipped and unsuspecting victims by force of arms
Columbus wanted to find a shorter ocean route to [[India]] and proclaimed the places and people he discovered to be "Indian", giving modern English the term "Indians" for the native Americans.
Columbus wanted to find a shorter ocean route to [[India]] and proclaimed the places and people he discovered to be "Indian", giving modern English the term "Indians" for the native Americans.
Toynbee wrote:
:The Spanish conquerors of the Middle American and Andean worlds immediately overwhelmed their ill-equipped and unsuspecting victims by force of arms; they virtually exterminated those elements of the population that were the repositories of the indigenous cultures; they substituted themselves as an alien dominant minority, and they reduced the rural population to the status of an internal proletariat of the Western Christian society ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=aRmTMxO61m4C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=american+civilizations+toynbee&source=web&ots=TyCdfo3VXE&sig=E01vOp1lxi7EezYIOuZ9U-Jgk9g#PPA180,M1 ]