explain the
demographic, environmental, and political consequences of European oceanic travel and
conquest. Some topics you may want to include in your information are listed below, but this is
not an exhaustive list of possible topics:
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investigating the near-elimination of indigenous civilizations and peoples in the Americas
diet and population changes in Africa, Asia, and Europe
social stratification of peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, slaves, and Indigenous Peoples
● ecological impact of exchanges of flora and fauna across the Atlantic.
What lessons might we learn from the European travel and conquests of this period as we look
to colonizing space, potentially including planets or solar systems with existing life forms?
Based on these lessons, what are three important rules you would enact to avoid repeating
some of the negative effects of European travel and conquests? Be sure to include specific
examples to support your rules.