To: drewh
That's why a bunch of tribes joined with Cortes to overthrow the Aztec power structure in Mexico. The idea that America before Europeans was some paradise is nonsense. Native tribes killed, brutalized and enslaved each other way before Columbus came.
16 posted on
10/08/2012 2:11:54 PM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Life for the Indians under Inca rule was no worse than life of the ordinary European. Maybe better.
47 posted on
10/08/2012 2:37:17 PM PDT by
kenavi
(Obama doesn't hate private equity. He wants to be it with our money.)
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