Posted on 10/09/2017 1:52:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I listened to Mel Gibson’s audio commentary of “Apocalypto”. He said his version is mild compared to the reality. He had to scale down the violence to make it viewable to the public.
 "Oh, I thought you said 'Disingenuous Peoples'. Never mind." |
In fairness, the natives domesticated (i.e. cross-bred, culling the less desirable strains) a lot of wild plants and turned them into staples. Things like potatoes, chili peppers, corn, beans and squash are available in the form we see today because they were domesticated thousands of years ago by pre-Columbian Native Americans.
You’re right. They did tomatoes too.
My favorite food by far!!! Summer, it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am forever in their debt!
But you still have to admit that Western Civilizations were far more advanced.
But Rome alone put most of Western Civ to shame.
Living in the Dark Ages seeing an aqueduct and thinking WTH! They had to wonder about the superior architectural structures and wonder why they did not now have a clue.
Humans migrate for many reasons. The “indigenous” people in America migrated. When two groups of people run into each other, many times the inferior culture disappears or is absorbed into the superior one.
The Europeans were superior in technology, science, weaponry, social organization, organized religion, laws, governments, building, medicine, transportation and so on. The people who were here were overrun, as the europeans population increased and needed more space and resources. Wars were fought and land settled and the people with seniority lost out. Those are the facts of life.
This anti-columbus movement is anchored by leftists and Mexicans in the US who forget they have Spanish blood in them.
Columbus was brave and a great explorer. As a person of European descent, I am thankful he came here. I know his voyages lead to the greatest nation in the history of the word. That’s why I celebrate Columbus day. If you want a day get your own.
A good argument can be made that the human presence was less visible in 1750 than it was in 1492.
The continent was still mostly unpopulated in 1750.
Coronado marched across the great plains, from Colorado to the Mississippi in a fairly early Spanish explortion in 1540.
Yes, there were populations in the East and West.
And the point is?
The center of the continent was a vast, unpopulated wasteland (they saw one band of less than 10 Apaches whose only domesticated animals were dogs in a couple of thousand miles of travel across the plains.
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