Quotes About Colonization

Who knew the havoc and ruin they'd perpetrate if allowed to run free among decent people. Best to keep them all in here, on this island, bought for twenty-seven bucks from the Indians, the story went. Twenty-seven bucks went a lot further in those days.

Turne, tot incassum fusos patiere labores et tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis?

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein

Río de la Plata, a funnel-shaped river located on the coast of what is now Argentina.

especially the Spaniards, posed a danger as great as the sea itself.

The fleet would be called the Armada de Molucca, after the Indonesian name for the Spice Islands. The ships were mostly black—pitch black.

On subsequent voyages, Portuguese ships brought gold, animal hides, elephant tusks—and slaves.

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

Magellan could seize any Arabs he found in the Portuguese hemisphere

Although Portugal was celebrated for leading Europe into the Age of Discovery, Portuguese kings often frustrated their heroic mariners.

allowed Spain or Portugal the freedom of the seas to reach lands belonging to one empire or the other.

Da Gama received a royal appointment as viceroy of India

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

found many islands filled with people without number, and of them all have I taken possession for Their Highnesses, by proclamation and with the royal standard displayed, and nobody objected.

They asked to keep any "islands" they discovered for themselves, if they discovered more than six

Schöner, like other cartographers of his era, shrank the immense Pacific

The Spice Islands were too valuable to entrust to the luck and skill of a single explorer.

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

the five ships comprising the Armada de Molucca in Brazil showed how porous and vulnerable the Portuguese

European traders wishing to reach the Spice Islands previously had traveled east rather than west

edict of the Portuguese king, announced on November 13, 1504

Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands must not violate the treaty.

Magellan brought with him many of Portugal's most precious and sensitive secrets: information about secret expeditions

he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;