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:
“Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm’s way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)