[Tench_Coxe]

In Mexico? That's impossible! EVERYONE knows that the people of the New World lived in peace and in harmony with the environment until the white man came.

I guess the arrival of whitey will now have to be re-dated for an arrival to match with the data.

Maybe this will allow the study of Kennewick Man.

[blam]

"Maybe this will allow the study of Kennewick Man."

LOL, Kennewick Man has a spear point stuck in his hip bone. They say it must have oozed painfully for years.

[swilhelm73]

It is laughable just how bad our public education system is in regards to the history of the colonization of the New World.

The local indians in Mexico were the primary reason for the downfall of the Aztecs to the Spanish. Tired of being *eaten* by the Aztecs their neighbors banded together with the Spaniards under Cortez. So, everyone knows about the evvvvvvil handful of Spaniards that destroyed the Aztecs - but almost no one knows about the thousands of native allies that fought with them.

As for the Incas, being a brutal pagan, communist dictatorship - yep you heard that right - when the Spaniards under Pizarro destroyed their leadership in a quick strike, their whole society fell apart quickly, as other subjugated indians saw the Spaniards as a lesser threat. Of course, the Incas were just finishing a brutal civil war of their own.