GREAT POST and enlightening.
Contact with the Europeans certainly cannot be separated from the background of competition between Spain and Portugal. The competition also encourages each kingdom to give support to the ship team that will sail. to keep Portuguese and Spanish from following each other, the direction of shipping is divided into two. An agreement that we know with the Tordesilas agreement. In the agreement Portuguese was sailed to the east along the coast of Africa to Tanung Harapan and then the next group traveled to Kalikut, India and then to Malacca and finally Maluku, Indonesia as the center of spices.
While Spain sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean to the Bahamas under the leadership of Chistoporus Columbus. And of course this heavy journey across the vast ocean made a form of achievement for the Europeans who later when they met with the people of the skin they thought they were in India. on the next development of the voyage Amerigo Vespuci
who then explained that it was not India but a new continent that was not yet known. Then to enjoy his services the new continent was given an American name.

then the next delegates learned that the American continent was rich in culture and gold, so there came a character like Francisco pizaro, Herman Cortez who conquered aztek and inca.
when De Soto then followed the Misisipi river from the Gulf of Mexico which later met with the locals.
Unfortunately, there is a habit of the Europeans who think that nations outside Europe are considered not yet civilized. so often their arrogance stems from hatred that often triggers war.

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