Indigenous Europeans
The following website highlights the different crops animals and diseases that were exchanged amongst the two worlds.
Indigenous europeans. Since the european union involves the free movement of people across borders european leaders are opening the floodgates to tens of millions of muslims and other non indigenous peoples at a time when native europeans fear for the survival of their civilization and feel like aliens in their own cities. Nobody or almost everybody depending on how you define indigenous. Nobody because all humans as in homo sapiens originated in africa at least 200 000 years ago. During the 17th century europeans commonly labeled indigenous peoples as uncivilized.
The official geographical definition of the continent of europe is consistent with the cultural history of this continent in comprising european russia the pontic steppes located north of the black and caspian seas present day ukraine the original homelands of the i es. Some philosophers such as thomas hobbes 1588 1679 considered indigenous people to be merely savages. The indigenous peoples of europe are the focus of european ethnology the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of europe groups may be defined by common genetic ancestry common language or both. The i es were not a mysterious people who came from outside europe but a people native to this continent.
The interaction between the europeans and the indigenous people can be described as both positive and negative. According to the german monograph minderheitenrechte in europa co edited by pan and pfeil 2002 there are 87 distinct indigenous peoples of. Scientists estimate that the arctic is.