Hello Eric Stoller:
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How were they a threat to Spain? Each side didn't even know that the other existed before Columbus came along. The islanders were far more peaceful and egalitarian than Europeans were at the time. Columbus himself recorded the types of atrocities he and his men inflicted upon them.
A re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand would show nothing except the ways that an overconfident, overambitious idiot can mess up.
If so, why did the conquerors bring all the new products from America to the European soil, if he taught them to cultivate?, moreover, since they were miles apart and they didn't know each other until Rodrigo said "Tierra a la vista", how could they be a threat to Spain?...................again, you speak, and then you think.
Hello, The Blog-Hole Reader:
P.S. I am of European heritage myself, so I don't mean to offend Europeans or those of European descent. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in this racist's post.
Um, Native Americans were cultivating crops long before the Europeans came. Ever hear of crops called corn (maize), beans, squash, or pumpkins? With out those crops the Europeans would have died.
Pure idiocy. The natives Columbus encountered were peaceful and welcomed him and his expedidtion with curiosity. (Much to their later chagrin as disease began to take its toll on them...)
Columbus never taught anyone to "plant" anything in their lives, seeing as how he wasn't a farmer, and the natives were quite capable of counting before he showed up.
The true foolisness in Columbus' expedition was all his, seeing as how he never did accept that he hadn't made it to India.
The Natives taught the Europeans about a lot of American crops, which they were cultivating themselves very nicely, thank you very much. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potato to Ireland, and a smoking habit to the rest of Europe who had never seen tobacco (a Creek word). Can anyone imagine Ireland without the potato, or Russia , for that matter? Without a Russian potato crop, there would be no Russian vodka.
The Carribbeans were a tribe of blood-thirsty savages who were a threat to Spain.
What? How? They did neither have sea worthy ships or boats nor did they even know Europe even existed, let alone Spain!
That is why Columbus pacified them.
He didn’t know they existed, either, FFS! He wanted to sail to India and just grossly underestimated the real size of the Earth.
But he also taught the Natives how to plant crops and how to count.
Corn, tomato, tobacco, potato, zero. These are just some words you need to look up. Some indigene people even had experimental crop fields where they tested which plants needed how much water and sunlight. That was at the same time as the three-field system was the height of European agriculture.
That is why a re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand would be such a valuable lesson to school children.
What would they learn from that? How not to execute a 19th century cavalry attack and how to get killed? What value would that have for them exactly? And what does Custer have to do with Columbus?
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