[muawiyah]

Yeah, and if you'd bother to study the matter you would have discovered that even if every Conquistidor stood shoulder to shoulder and all the Indians had begun advancing on them at a normal walking rate, the normal Indian birthrate would have overwhelmed the death rate the Conquistidores could have inflicted.

The general scientific concensus is that the Indians were killed by Old World disease. A more recent discovery is that they were killed to an even greater degree by a Hanta virus native to the Americas.

The English created quite a bit of nasty propaganda about the Spanish, French and others who went to the Americas and blamed them for every sort of crime, including many of their own. Do not be misled by the "English Filter".

[RegulatorCountry]

"A more recent discovery is that they were killed to an even greater degree by a Hanta virus native to the Americas."

Quite a lengthy thread on this topic, on FR, in fact.

[Coyoteman]

My example of the death rate in the California missions (about 90% during the mission era) reflects the latest studies, not some "English Filter" or Hanta virus.

Look it up. "Enlightenment" indeed!