European Contact

European contact may refer to discovery:

  • European discovery of the Americas

exploration:

  • European exploration of Australia
  • European exploration of Africa

colonization:

  • Colonialism
  • Colonization of Africa
  • European colonization of the Americas

Or the effects of the contact:

  • Population history of American indigenous peoples
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Christianity in Japan

Famous quotes containing the words european and/or contact:

    “England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.”
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    “Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion—religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)