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:
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)