Summary: Migrating To Barbarian Lands

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Migrating to Barbarian Lands By immigrating to new lands, Spain put themselves at an advantage while harming the natives. When Spain arrived in the Guanches, they thought the land and people uncivilized and barbarian. They decided to "help" the Natives by "transform[ing] the islands' ecology by introducing new plants and animals,"(5) overrunning the native species and destroying their way of life. Similarly, when Columbus arrived in America, the trade was at first somewhat fair with each side getting what they wanted, but "soon, exchange between Europeans and Native Americans began to give place to extortion"(6) on the part of the Europeans. The Europeans saw the Native Americans as a source of resources, not a group of people. This also happened

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