[Fiddlstix]

They may well have murdered more people in cold blood than Hitler could have imagined.

[mountainlion]

Pissaro and his diseased men and pigs caused an epidemic that may have killed 2 million people.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Was most of it cold-blooded murder? I don't think so. A lot of Mesoamericans died, but most of it was from diseases which the Spanish inadvertently introduced,did not understand and could not have spread deliberately.

In European terms, the American Hemisphere human extinction events of the 16th-17th century were more comparable to the Black Death than to the Nazis. Not murder. Infectious epidemics.