June
26
/ 2018
Colonialism hasn’t changed much. More than 2000 years ago, when Alexander the Great conquered the Persia, he sent an ancient explorer named Nearchus to sail down the Indus River and map the lands ahead. It was a voyage filled with some strange and unnerving echoes of the explorers of the world to come. Like the men who first journeyed into the heart of the Congo, Nearchus sailed down a great river, discovering new tribes the Greek world never knew existed. And just like the explorers of the Congo, he called them “savages” and he killed them all. Nearchus’s Journey Down the Indus River Nearchus was an admiral in Alexander the Great’s army. He helped lead the Greek fleet into battle
