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:

    No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)