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Through the dark continent work by stanley britannica. Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentiethcentury europe has played an incalculable role in western civilizations fortunes. At the beginning of 1417, frederick hohenzollern from nuremberg. On his voyages to islands in the caribbean, he killed and enslaved many native people and was even arrested in spain for his tyrannical governance of the lands he still believed to be the indies.
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