And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Exactly what the locals were doing to each other. But also to build a superior civilization, and make the new world a leader in all arts, industry and science, dragging the locals out of the Stone Age and onto the very cutting edge of human development. Not that they appreciated any of that.
The Spanish Conquistadors committed the worst genocide the world has ever seen in the New World. Over 85% of the indigenous people were dead by the time settlers came.
To rob, rape, and pillage!
ReplyDeleteExactly what the locals were doing to each other. But also to build a superior civilization, and make the new world a leader in all arts, industry and science, dragging the locals out of the Stone Age and onto the very cutting edge of human development. Not that they appreciated any of that.
DeleteThe Spanish Conquistadors committed the worst genocide the world has ever seen in the New World. Over 85% of the indigenous people were dead by the time settlers came.
ReplyDeleteMost died from diseases that they didn't have any resistance to.
DeleteThey did pass along one health problem the Euro's didn't have: Syphilis
DeleteBoy, does that look hearty!
ReplyDeleteWho's the artist and what is the title of the painting?
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