Much Wisdom
Posted on 10/13/2017 12:20:35 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Fascinating read! Thanks for posting!
Also look at the religious practices of the Indigenous people. The pyramids flowed red with the blood of human sacrifices.
It’s great looking back at Indigenous people groups as peaceful, and living in a balance with nature, but that is far from the truth.
Genocide was practiced by the Indians and their conquers alike. It all had to do with local means of power and subjugation be it by the Indians (the were brutal in the extreme) or the Spanish.
This is nothing new and has been the history of he world.
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English, Dutch and Portuguese slavers did not run through the jungle and veld looking for slaves. The went to ports on West Africa and bought them from black men that had enslaved other tribes for sale. I worked out of Escravos in Nigeria in my oil field days. The translation of Escrovos into English is slave.
The slave trade was betwween white men and black men. It is that simple.
Although the Spanish did not specifically intend to exterminate the native peoples, their conquests, European diseases and slavery did take a heavy toll. Go to Latin America today and you will find many people of mixed African ancestry because the Spanish and Portuguese imported more African slaves to the New World than the English ever did. The “Indians” could not survive the harsh slavery they were subjected to; thus the import of African slaves. The importation of disease was not a one-way street- the Europeans caught syphilis from the Indians.
“So Cortes and Pizarro who wiped out the Aztecs and Incas hailed from England. Who knew?!”
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Cortes and Pizarro were humanitarians who were searching for spices - the left lies, saying they were murderous in their madness for gold.
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Wow - it's not just a television show!
Bribery is expected."
Can't help but think that that part of hispanic culture is vestige of the Moorish occupation.
Antifa and confederate statues?
Antifa and confederate statues?
That’s a big part of it. The madness has spread to Canada too — e.g. some malcontents want to remove statues of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister.
I’m struck by how similar the mindset of those statue destroyers is to the mindset of those who committed the historical travesties you mentioned
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