[muawiyah]

The disasters started before the Spanish got there, particularly the plague of hanta virus.

The English loved to write about how brutal the Spanish were, with the result that we don't know how rigid their colonial administrators really were.

Under the English on the Eastern Seaboard, about 95% of the Indians were dead by 1648 and there all the colonial administrators were either pirates, religious fanatics or merry bands of homosexuals (friends of King James).

[mckenzie7]

I was under the impression that the French, Spanish, Scottish and Irish all intermarried with the natives, but the English were tee pee crawlers.

Don't know if that is true or not, but there are an awful lot of people with native blood and not that many with English surnames!

[JoeProBono]