I am sure I wasn't the only thirteen year old in jr. high who began to question how a few hundred Spaniards (sometimes the story might be British, Portuguese, French, etc.) could cross an ocean in a tiny wooden boat and conquer and kill "millions". Often times it was as the author explains in this video and not simply because they were "bloodthirsty" Europeans lusting for Gold.
Check out the YT/podcast "The Rest is History". They did a four or five part series on the downfall of the Incas. Very even handed and funny as well.
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ReplyDeleteSpot on! Although I think some of the numbers are low. During the dedication of the sun pyramid the Aztec sacrificed 30,000 captives / prisoners / enemies .
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O.K. Maybe so. Yes, all lands were conquered by someone at some time, and the mesoamericans WERE a bloodthirsty bunch. And the Incas weren't exactly sweethearts, either.
ReplyDeleteBut I will NEVER . . . NUNCA . . . forgive the Spanish parrocos and sacerdotes for destroying all those codices of the Maya and Inca.
And please let's not forget what the Church did to hundreds of thousands of people in 15th century Europe for worshiping the wrong god or the right god the wrong way. Thousands were killed, brutally, savagely for wrongthink.
Kind of like this:
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Don't give Islam a pass for what they've done continuously since, both to each other and to every other religion they come in contact with.
ReplyDeleteChristianity had a Reformation. Islam CANNOT by the words of the Koran.
I was taught the Conquistadors brought Covid with them and the natives refused the vaccine.
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