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    Wampanoag Nipmuck Nauset Narragansett Pequot Mohegan Mattabesic Quinnipiac Tunxis Paugussett Niantic Pocumtuc
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    Education at Harvard 1600s
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  • emphasizes civil discourse and respect for differences
  • use this election as an opportunity to educate students about the concept of ideology and how to bridge conflicting opinions.
  • Polarized Classrooms”
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  • Columbus lived for a time on Portugal’s plantation island of Madeira, with its then ample population of slaves. He married the daughter of Bartolome Perestrello
  • Columbus had also worked as a sugar buyer for the Genoese banking family of the Centuriones; and ... must have seen slaves in the Canary Islands, working on the sugar plantations which he himself knew well
  • Columbus’s 1492 voyage to the New World has often been identified as a turning point in the history of the last millennium. His governorship of Hispaniola — during which the native Caribs (from which the Caribbean derives its name) were enslaved and 90% died of disease or abuse within the first decade thanks to Columbus’s quest for gold — is said to have set precedent for Cortez and Pisarro’s looting of the Aztecs and Incas and the destruction of their civilisations. The gold and silver extracted from these was, in turn, said to have funded Habsburg domination of Europe for the next two centuries and the creation of the modern world out of the feudal order that preceded it.
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  • The other half of this story is Africa. The very basis of the ease of the conquistadors’ take-over of the New World — the indigenous peoples’ vulnerability to European diseases — also made them useless as a labour force and so Africans had to be shipped in instead as slaves.
  • For the next three centuries, the exploitation of Africa made that of the New World possible.
  • the Triangular Trade that ensured the maturation of capitalism and underpinned the elaboration of Enlightenment high culture — the shipping of slaves from Africa to harvest such staples of European life as sugar, cotton and tobacco in the New World. It built the investment infrastructure of capitalism.
  • Ultimately, the Portuguese proved more adept at the ‘great game’ of imperialism than the Spanish — the 1493 Treaty of Tordesillas gave them the best slave ports in equatorial Africa and Brazilian plantations which proved so extensive and productive that they supplied even north America with tobacco
  • it was the Spanish that came first, and it was they that set the pattern.
  • but a key
  • was the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Azores, Madeiras, and Canary Islands during the 15th century.
  • Alfred Crosby argued in his 1986 history, Ecological Imperialism:[2]
  • [T]he Iberian conquest of the Azores, Madeiras and Canaries [w]as a pilot program for the reshaping of European colonies in the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Oceania. In all these places, the newcomers would conquer the human populations and Europeanize entire ecosystems. They dared this because they had seen from the Iberian experience in the Canaries that European crops and herds would thrive in all but the most hostile, unfamiliar environments, and that the fiercest indigenes could be beaten despite their superior numbers and home-ground advantage. As a result, tens of millions of natives around the world would die.
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    From "The Anarchist Library"
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    For Advisory, History Units on Civil Rights and Women's Rights
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