[pburgh01]

That and the influenza bug probably put 80% of indigenous people on their backs, with 1/2 of those dying. That probably did it. Like the Dinosaurs and the Asteroid, it was a fairly punctuated extinction event.

Too sick, too depraved, too hated, and too primitive to last. Like an impressive 52-story wood building standing up to a JDAM.

[pburgh01]

And before we call our glorious Greco-Roman past objectively more humane and kind... well, I think there is a building in Rome or 2 standing as testaments to brutality and sadism.