Posted on 10/12/2015 6:44:28 AM PDT by truthfinder9
>>How many cultures vanished unrecorded before Columbus’ arrival? What Columbus brought to the New World was History.
Exactly. While some people invent fictional histories of the Pre-Columbian stone age tribes in this hemisphere by using a few facts that fit their narrative and ignoring all other facts, the truth is that they had a culture of little more than survival and war (and avoiding war to survive, of course). Europe had disease and hunger as the cost of its success in building cities and producing viable offspring that exceeded the capabilities of the land. But, even then, Europeans could feed a lot more people off an acre of land than the hunter-gatherers of the western hemisphere.
As you point out, Columbus was not the first destroy a culture in this hemisphere. He was just the first to do it after written history came here.
Thank you-it isn’t like he could just sail back to Spain and tell his patrons/investors/employers Ferdinand and Isabella that he didn’t find India-or anything even close-just a bunch of people living like it was in Europe before the Roman empire.
People didn’t just get fired and have a bad reference then-for not delivering to the king and queen-and probably other stockholders/investors, he would have gotten prison and maybe lost his head-you can’t blame the guy for lying a bit and painting a picture of profits to be made to save his employment and his skin...
Now that would be celebrating diversity.
;’)
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