Posted on 01/09/2019 10:35:33 PM PST by vannrox
Yep.
Well, at least it kept out all of the illegals that otherwise would have overrun the place and urinated in the gardens and aqueducts... at least until the Spanish illegals showed up.
To be fair, the people of the Old World were waging brutal wars of conquest on each other long before the Spanish saw any Aztec do it... the Spanish- Moor fighting wasn’t with pillows. The reason Europeans were so accustomed to fighting and ingenious about it was that they’d been conquered and at times had been conquerors themselves for centuries.
Recent research suggests that the Indians of the americas mostly died of diseases from Europe Africa and the Middle east that were brought over by the europeans. The diseases typically went ahead of the Europeans so the Indians would be dead before the Europeans even arrived in the area.
Two recent eye opening books on the subject will change the way you see the world. One is 1493 which deals with the new world after columus arrived. The other is 1491 which discusses pre columbian America. Both books are written by Charles Mann. He basically summarizes all the archaeological and anthropological work of the last 40 years.
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