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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-214 days agoI’d like to note that pre-Columbian contact estimates for the population of the Americas vary wildly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
minus-squareryedaft@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·14 days agoI’d like to note that conquistadors actively spread disease amongst natives. They knew what they were doing.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-214 days agoI mean, even if they didn’t, the mass enslaving and slaughter performed by the conquistadors is enough to prove that they were evil genocidal fucks.
I’d like to note that pre-Columbian contact estimates for the population of the Americas vary wildly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
I’d like to note that conquistadors actively spread disease amongst natives. They knew what they were doing.
I mean, even if they didn’t, the mass enslaving and slaughter performed by the conquistadors is enough to prove that they were evil genocidal fucks.