If your estimates are "good", then you must have valid, reilable data sources.
If so, please share them.
TXnMA
Posted on 01/09/2019 10:35:33 PM PST by vannrox
Spanish saw the Aztec Gods as Devilish Demons—to be pulled down and replaced by the “Truth Faith” of the Roman Catholic Church. A better deal for the natives. You looked crosseyed at an Aztec Noble you had your heart ripped out, you looked wrong at a Spanish Noble you got a boot in the face but you were still alive and were offered a place (at the bottom) of the Spanish World Empire—all the wonders, tools and science of Europe, things from China, things from other parts of South America. The Spanish dreamed of a world totally dominated by Spain—one king, one pope (a Spanish Pope) for all mankind. One language one nation for all. This new world would be one of peace and prosperty! No nations, no different religions—no reason to fight? Scary.
I'd like to know where you got your "facts".
There were not that many people here.
The Americas had only started being populated 10-15,000 years ago.
The vast majority of Native deaths were attributible to Old World diseases they had no immunity to, and no, the diseases weren't introduced on purpose.
It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that germ theory of disease was accepted.
History is what it is, and cannibalism there was ended. Thank God.
“I left my heart in Tenochtitlan....”
I think you are overstating the deaths of indigenous American peoples caused deliberately by Europeans.
If Europeans & Amerinds had met and thrown rose petals at each other the death rate wouldn’t have changed much. The prime killer was European disease and the lack of immunity that Amerinds had for it. I have read its estimated that 80%-90% of the Massachusetts coastal tribes that were available to meet the Pilgrims were dead by the time the Pilgrims got there. This was due to a few interactions with fur traders & probably Basque Cod fishermen who had a small pox infected crewman. There were no great battles or massive acts of forced religious conversion to cause these casualties probably nothing much more then a handshake & a sneeze. When Pizarro showed up at the Inca doorstep the Inca had not only undergone a brutal civil war between rival factions but had suffered the effects of a devastating plague - believed again to be smallpox. Probably picked up from the odd shipwrecked Spaniard or two. A more modern example is the devastation done to the native Hawaiian population by common European respiratory diseases some say it was “the common cold”.
Guess Mel Gibson was right.
In the early 1700’s, the Cheyenne took the Black Hills from the Kiowa.
In 1776 the Lakota Sioux defeated the Cheyenne in war and took the Black Hills from them.
About 100 years later the US did the same to the Sioux.
Why does the first conquest confer legitimate title and the second doesn’t?
Not credible.
You have entered the “Twilight zone”
I wonder who did the estimating and what their agenda might be?
How did they come up with the numbers?
Not that it really matters, once you go over one, to those being killed, the number is too high.
I knew somebody would get it.
If your estimates are "good", then you must have valid, reilable data sources.
If so, please share them.
TXnMA
LOL!
Thanks vannrox and Tennessee Nana. And for dessert, lady fingers!
No white meat..only dark.
You like any of the 2000+ mosques across America?
You MEAN like any of the 2000+ mosques across America?
Where’s the census data to back up your population claims?
Apocalypto is the Aztec movie directed by Mel Gibson
And we must remember that the Spanish Inquisition was alive and active during this period and for centuries afterwards. I don’t know, which would you prefer, having your heart cut out or being burned alive? I suspect the former if I had a choice.
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