#colonization

#colonization

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August of 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He sailed from Iberia to the Caribbean, then on to the South and Central American mainlands. Colonies were founded by Columbus and his younger brother Bartholomew; waves of colonists followed in their wake.

Sixty days ago The alien colonizers arrived on Earth, bringing guns, carriers, cannons - and the nanobot plague. The nanobots burrowed into our bodies through our spinal cords, roaming inside us, slowly eating us from the inside out. "These nanobots will torment you," the colonizers said, "until only one of you remains. Then they will stop." We understood - they wanted us to kill each other.

The end of martial law in the late 1980s coincided with a new freedom of expression in Taiwan, marked by a questioning identity and cultural exploration.