Quotes About Colonization

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

Louis XIV had sent hundred of soldiers--all men--to New France. These soldiers wanted to start families... But there were six men for every woman... [Louis XIV] announced that he would pay young Frenchwomen large amounts of money if they would go and live in the colonies. Many young women accepted the King's offer...

Despite the starvation and the hard work, some of the prisoners realized that life in Australia was actually better than life back in England. In England, they had been beggars with no way to get land of their own.

there were three men for every woman in Australia! Australia needed women. A committee in London was formed to send young women to Australia for only five pounds.

Afryko! Bóg musiaÅ' by? w zÅ'ym humorze, kiedy tworzyÅ' ten kontynent, jak inaczej wytÅ'umaczy? fakt zaludnienia tej ziemi populacjÄ… skazanÄ… na to, by zastÄ…piÅ'y jÄ… inne, przybywajÄ…ce ze Å›wiata rasy?

Sam Meksyk, w chwili przybycia Europejczyków w 1519 roku, mógÅ' mie? dwadzieÅ›cia pi?? milionów mieszkaÅ"ców. Pi??dziesiÄ…t lat pó?niej liczba ta spadÅ'a do dwóch milionów siedmiuset tysiÄ™cy.

Najwa?niejszym celem podboju nie byÅ'o bynajmniej mordowanie ludnoÅ›ci ?ydowskiej, tak jak nie byÅ'o intencjÄ… osiedlajÄ…cych siÄ™ Amerykanów mordowanie Indian. Zamierzano poszerzy? przestrzeÅ" ?yciowÄ…. Rosyjscy Å»ydzi zamieszkiwali tereny, które Hitler wÅ'aÅ›nie planowaÅ' zdoby?.

CzÅ'owieczeÅ"stwo TasmaÅ"czyków nie byÅ'o dla nich ?adnÄ… ochronÄ…. Zostali zmieceni z powierzchni ziemi w ciÄ…gu trwajÄ…cej pi??dziesiÄ…t lat, wyniszczajÄ…cej wojny prowadzonej przez naje?d?ców z Europy. Jakie wiÄ™c mamy prawo skar?y? siÄ™, gdy ten sam rodzaj wojny prowadzÄ… Marsjanie przeciwko nam?

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

La maldición de la modernidad es que cada vez estamos más colonizados por una clase de personas cuya capacidad para explicar las cosas supera a su capacidad de comprensión. O cuya capacidad explicativa supera a sus acciones.

No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some of the Pilgrims' children were less willing to treat Native leaders with the tolerance and respect their parents had once afforded Massasoit.

Philip's local squabble with Plymouth Colony had mutated into a regionwide war that, on a percentage basis, had done nearly as much as the plagues of 1616–19 to decimate New England's Native population.

By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers' way of life.

Some Englishmen privately admitted that if the Narragansetts had chosen to join Philip in July, all would have been lost. As the Nipmucks assailed them from the west, the far more powerful Narragansetts might have stormed up from the south, and Boston would have been overrun by a massive pan-Indian army. But instead of acknowledging the debt they owed the Narragansetts, the Puritans resolved to wipe them out.

It may have been true that from a strictly legal standpoint there was nothing wrong with how Winslow and the other Plymouth officials acquired large amounts of Pokanoket land. And yet, from a practical and moral standpoint, the process removed the Indians from their territory as effectively—and as cheaply—as driving them off at gunpoint

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.

Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England.

Not until the 1440s did they learn that the island's warm climate was better suited to another, more profitable crop: sugarcane.

Both the clergy and Louis XIV, the king whom Baron d'Arce was goading, tried to suppress these dangerous ideas by instructing French officials to force a French education upon the Indians, complete with lessons in deferring to their social betters. The attempts, Jaenen reported, were ' everywhere unsuccessful.

European visitors marveled at the number of nut and fruit trees and the big clearings with only a dim apprehension that the two might be due to the same human source.

Trying to build up the colonial population, the monarchy ordered that female African slaves be awarded to every new male European arrival, along with exhortations to breed.

But the natives soon learned that most of the British were terrible shots, from lack of practice—their guns were little more than noisemakers. Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed.

The Mi'kmaq in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia scoffed at the notion of European superiority. If Christian civilization was so wonderful, why were its inhabitants all trying to settle somewhere else?

From Bartolomé de Las Casas on, Europeans have known that their arrival brought about a catastrophe for Native Americans. "We, Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms," reflected Pedro Cieza de León, the traveler in postconquest Peru. "For wherever the Spaniards have passed, conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone, destroying everything in its path.