BHSEC
Americas
The New world... A passage of wealth and land in many eyes of Europeans. Europeans, conquering this land against each major imperialist empire hoping to gain power. However, coming to the New land, according to JH Elliott claim on the ''New conquerors'' approached many problems as the natives and the land but the main concern according to Elliot was " Confronted by a challenge of almost inconceivable immensity- the mastering of American space''. Laws proclaimed by the Royal family or the pope such as ''Res Nullius''-''whereby unoccupied land remained the common property of mankind, until being put to use'' on which empires get what. Elliot explains the empires of British and Dutch similiar as to its views politically