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"discovered" How do you discover a place that people already are or know about? I'll give you a hint...you don't. You show up their, subjugate the locals, and
by avs733 7y ago
"discovered"
How do you discover a place that people already are or know about?
I'll give you a hint...you don't. You show up their, subjugate the locals, and claim your history as the history of civilization itself.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoSo in this limited case no one was actually living there before.
- seszett 7y agoTo be clear, although it was already known by fishermen, this archipelago was not occupied by locals and was first settled by the European countries that deemed it a worthy endeavour (although mostly using slaves of course). European colonisation isn't rosy, but there is a lot of misinformation out there and things happened widely differently in different places. It's really far from being a simple "subjugate the locals and appropriate their lands" story everywhere.