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As a historian watching the latest Johnny Harris video I was disturbed. Johnny has a laudable goal of wanting to show the origins of European colonialism. But he cuts so many corners, that history is sacrificed on the altar of storytelling. In doing so he presents warped version of what actually happened.

The video in question:    • The Origins of European Imperialism  

00:00 00:30 Johnny Harris Lies To You
00:30 01:18 Johnny's Vid
01:18 04:32 Europe as a dark dark place
04:32 05:10 Portugal's Expansion
05:10 10:28 Columbus Didn't Invent Colonialism
10:28 11:37 A Note on Depicting Native peoples
11:37 13:07 A Compliment For Johnny Harris
13:07 15:59 The Limits of Storytelling
15:59 16:24 Acknowledgements

Sources:

Mohamed Adhikari Europe’s First Settler Colonial Incursion into Africa: The Genocide of Aboriginal Canary Islanders

David Haddock & Lynne Kiesling The Black Death and Property Rights

Jeffrey Barton Russel Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians

Government Finance and Imposition of Serfdom after the Black Death
Margaret E. Peters

Carla Phillips and William D. Phillips The Worlds of Colombus

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