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To: CheshireTheCat

It always gives me some satisfaction that Spain is so trivial a nation today. It doesn’t repair the damage their empire did to the New World or bring the people they killed back to life, but it ensures that at least they won’t do any more damage.


9 posted on 05/18/2020 7:42:12 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Without Spain, there would be no America. I get your point about their savageness, but some things they did were great.


10 posted on 05/18/2020 8:12:55 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
It always gives me some satisfaction that Spain is so trivial a nation today. It doesn’t repair the damage their empire did to the New World or bring the people they killed back to life, but it ensures that at least they won’t do any more damage.

A rather twisted view of history.

The Aztecs were much worse than the Spanish.

The Incas might have been marginally less bad than the Aztecs.

Most of the death and damage in the New Word were from the diseases carried between Europe and the Americas. It worked both ways, but the people in the New World were much more suseptable, especially to the Asian diseases.

The Europeans had already paid that price with multiple plagues in Europe.

11 posted on 05/18/2020 8:18:14 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Their empire hasn’t done us any favors. Spain even sent troops to assist the Third Reich. (Legión Azul).


12 posted on 05/18/2020 8:28:58 AM PDT by Does so ( POLONIUM in presumptive candidate's future?)
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