<span>Irish Nationalists were angry at England because the English invaded their country, confiscated their land and planted it with English and Scottish settlers, prohibited Catholics from owning land or participating in their own government or commerce, outlawed the Irish language, and did their best to erase Irish culture.</span>
Encounters between European navigators, explorers, conquerors, colonizers, merchants, missionaries and "other" peoples and cultures over the course of 4 centuries. At an immediate and practical level, conquest, colonization and trade led to modes of domination or coexistence and multi-faceted transcultural relationships. In Europe, such encounters with "otherness" led to attempts to explain and interpret the origins and nature of racial and cultural (linguistic, religious and social) diversity. At the same time, observation of alien societies, cultures and religious practices broadened the debate on human social forms, leading to a critical reappraisal of European Christian civilization.
Pilagrams to holy lands I think
