True ... but unfortunately, the European diseases they unwittingly brought with them killed millions ... so probably it would have in fact been better for the Indians had the Aztecs stayed in power from that standpoint ... in North America alone, it is estimated that 9/10ths of the native population was wiped out by diseases (mainly Small Pox) brought by the Europeans ...
... but in any event, that was just happenstance ... whenever two civilizations first meet, the more virile, superior one, will dominate the other ... that’s the way of the world ... ironically, it is only the wealthiest, decaying civilizations that historically seem to lose their instinct for self-preservation .. kind of like Western Europe today ...
“so probably it would have in fact been better for the Indians had the Aztecs stayed in power from that standpoint”
Bullcrap. Pure revisionist bullcrap. Europeans had diseases that indians had never been exposed to. So whenever the contact was made, the diseases were going to follow.
“...ironically, it is only the wealthiest, decaying civilizations that historically seem to lose their instinct for self-preservation .. kind of like Western Europe today …”
Now our poorest are actually the most likely to be obese. Something that has never happened before, at least as far as what has been recorded or extrapolated from evidence.
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