Portuguese established forts along the Atlantic coast of Africa during the fifteenth century, inaugurating centuries of European colonization there
The Portuguese empire made a very important role in colonization.
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Native Americans lacked the immunities that Europeans and Africans had developed over centuries of deadly epidemics and so when Europeans arrived, carrying smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis, plagues decimated native communities. Death rates tended to be highest near European communities who traveled with children, as children tended to carry the deadliest diseases.9 Many died in war and slavery, but millions died in epidemics. All told, in fact, some scholars estimate that as much as 90 percent of the population of the Americas perished within the first century and a half of European contact
Disease is destroying millions, but how long did it take for less and less to die from these diseases?
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By presuming the natives had no humanity, the Spaniards utterly abandoned theirs.
Why was it always presumed that slaves, Indians and Black people alike, had no humanity?
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Native cultures understood ancestry as matrilineal: family and clan identity proceeded along the female line, through mothers and daughters, rather than fathers and sons.
This is a wonderful example of how some cultures can be so different and still thrive.
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One single building, Pueblo Bonito, stretched over two acres and rose five stories.
Is this building still standing today? Can you go and see it?
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Cahokia experienced what one archeologist has called a “big bang” around the year 1050 that included “a virtually instantaneous and pervasive shift in all things political, social, and ideological.”4
What was the catalyst of this "big bang?"
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“They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor the sins of murder or theft,
This shows proof that native american's do not want any conflict with anyone who enters their land from the statment that Columbus said.
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Circle of life was forming for the best that God could make it
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
God felt like after he created one species of animals he was determined to make bigger and better ones for the circle of life.
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This story talks about how Chief god Olorun ruled everything that was above the sky and beyond. Olokun was in charge of everything that was below it. Olorun asked for permission from Obatala for some changes to be made. This story has to do with creating the world like The first book of Moses " Gensis 1".
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