[maine-iac7]

Read up on the Taíno’s and ask ‘was it good or bad’ that their numbers, in a short period of time after Columbus ‘discovered’ them and "There I found very many islands, filled with innumerable people, and I have taken possession of them all for their Highnesses, done by proclamation and with the royal standard unfurled..." - went from an estimated 3,000,000 to 600? Some by disease brought by the whites, but tens of thousands enslaved and slaughtered.

Was it good or bad that they died by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Spanish?

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[SampleMan]

Was it good or bad that they died by the tens of thousands at the hands of the Spanish?

History is full of the end of previous peoples. It did not begin on America's shore. There were 40,000+ natives with Cortes when he destroyed the Aztecs. They hated their Aztec Overlords.

Disease was the principal killer of Native Americans. It was tremendous and rapid. There simply weren't enough Europeans to kill that many people that fast, do the math.

I would also caution you to beware of the "official history" as passed down from the British. It was greatly propagandized and often downright invented to paint the Spanish in a bad light. I can't imagine that it would be a good thing to have the Americas preserved as a giant zoo lightly populated by stone-age peoples.