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Mostly wiped out by unfamiliar diseases.
So why didn't the Europeans contract an "unfamiliar" disease from the natives that decimated Europeans? Other than gonorrhea.
All of the "native" tribes were absolutely savages. It wasn't some made up bogey man story.
A couple of months ago, in the northern coastal desert of Peru.
Instead of helping them change their ideas you have to kill them.
Instead of helping them change their ideas you have to kill them.
indc saysInstead of helping them change their ideas you have to kill them.
Christians eliminated sutee, a form of human sacrifice, and the thugee cult - along with thing of other bandit groups - that had played India for centuries.
They left railroads, medicine, chemistry, and advanced agra techniques that tripled lifespans and quality of life. Christians probably save and extended 100x more lives than they took.
Now for Thugee cult.they were created by british. s
Churchill caused famine and killed 3millions people and you want us to believe that christians gave advanced agra techniques. HAHAHA.
India had advanced medicine and chemistry. India's population was 100 million in 18th century. And you want us to believe christians came and civilized(advanced whatever) India.
Readers know that I have retailed my personal view of a collapsing techno-industrial society as The Long Emergency. My own conviction is this: that the general apprehension of such an event, now on-going, has generated among the citizenry such terror as to drive society crazy. (Mass Formation is a related interpretation, not necessary to go into here.)
I suppose this has happened to most other civilizations that wobbled and fell. The one best-known to me — because I wrote about it in The City in Mind (2002) — is the psychosis that overcame the Aztecs 1519 to 1521. It is the weirdest story in history that I know of. Aztec civilization was barely two hundred years old. The great city-state of Tenochtitlan had quickly grown to about a million when Hernan Cortés and Company, representing Spain of the Inquisition, marched in. Cortés, in his gleaming steel helmet, was the personification of the Aztecs’ deity-in-chief, Huitzilopochtli, their sun god, and the theological narrative that went with him — that Huitzilopochtli would return to the world from wherever elsewhere the gods reposed and destroy everything. In fact, that’s exactly what Señor Cortés and his few-hundred soldiers proceeded to do to a million Aztecs and their culture.
But during the two years Cortés sojourned among them, the Aztecs went batshit crazy ramping up their previously modest program of human sacrifice — a few hapless captives now and again — to a fantastic ritual mass bloodbath, cutting the hearts out of hundreds at a time atop their great pyramid to propitiate Huitzilopochtli and persuade him, by such a bloody performance of their devotion, to not end their world. It ended anyway, though another world (arguably not a better one) took its place: Mexico.
So why didn't the Europeans contract an "unfamiliar" disease from the natives that decimated Europeans? Other than gonorrhea.
It would have been worse if they weren't vaxxed.
If Columbus hadn't shown up, the Aztecs would have been free to rip the hearts out of millions more living people over the centuries. Surely we must pay reparations for this.