Spotlight on Explorers and Colonization: Set 2
For centuries, the discovery and exploration of the New
World fascinated European explorers. Those who visited the Americas brought with
them the culture and politics of their homelands along with diseases, religion,
and social attitudes completely alien to indigenous populations. The
sometimes-violent meeting of these cultures shaped the continuing exploration
and development of the so-called New World. The biographies in this series
detail the lives of the most noteworthy European explorers to cross the high
seas by investigating their motivations, the effect their exploration had
on indigenous peoples, and, in turn, the influence of New World culture on
European society.
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