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:
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)