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==Part One== | ==Part One== | ||
Liberty City used to be a remote Dutch trading post called [[wp:New_Amsterdam|New | Liberty City used to be a remote Dutch trading post called New Rotterdam (based on [[wp:New_Amsterdam|New Amsterdam]]). On September 4, 1609, Horatio Humbolt (based on [[wp:Henry_Hudson|Henry Hudson]]), an English explorer hired by the Dutch to find a new place to sell weed, steered his ship into the mouth of a river coincidentally named the Humbolt (based on the [[wp:Hudson_River|Hudson River]]) by the local natives (based on Humbolt's writings). The river was already polluted by the natives expelling waste into the river. This justified the genocide and larceny on the natives. | ||
New Rotterdam was founded by the Dutch, who preached about liberal values but really cared about pimping women and getting high and were probably the first rappers. They wanted to find a place where they could party and kill people. Unlike other cities in the New World that were founded to promote religious intolerance, New Rotterdam was founded so Europeans can get rich off of other people's work. The natives were savages, wearing little clothes, but they were dealt with. | New Rotterdam was founded by the Dutch, who preached about liberal values but really cared about pimping women and getting high and were probably the first rappers. They wanted to find a place where they could party and kill people. Unlike other cities in the New World that were founded to promote religious intolerance, New Rotterdam was founded so Europeans can get rich off of other people's work. The natives were savages, wearing little clothes, but they were dealt with. | ||
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==Part Two== | ==Part Two== | ||
The gateway to the New World was also a den of inequity. The campaign to clean up the city began almost as soon as the city was founded. In the spring of 1647, the East India Trading Company hired a general for New Rotterdam named [[wp:Peter_Stuyvesant| | The gateway to the New World was also a den of inequity. The campaign to clean up the city began almost as soon as the city was founded. In the spring of 1647, the East India Trading Company hired a general for New Rotterdam named Gloria Hole (based on [[wp:Peter_Stuyvesant|Peter Stuyvesant]]) to return civility and productivity to the colony. | ||
Within weeks Hole banned many activities. This wasn't well received. The city was burned to the ground. Within a few years New Rotterdam had become so diverse that the Dutch had become a minority in their own colony. Diversity was troubling to them, and with diversity came peril. | Within weeks Hole banned many activities. This wasn't well received. The city was burned to the ground. Within a few years New Rotterdam had become so diverse that the Dutch had become a minority in their own colony. Diversity was troubling to them, and with diversity came peril. | ||