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Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

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John Henrik Clarke
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: July 16
Historian
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Union Springs
Alabama
John Clarke
Colonized
Europeans
Information
World

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