Kynes said:
No, learn to read. What I'm saying is that it isn't one of the biggest genocide in human history. That's bullshit, plain and clear, but coming from you what I could have expected. Every conqueror does bad things, but it's tiresome to see that when someone thinks of slaughters, people think in Spaniards in America. There have been tons of much bigger slaughters than what Spaniards and Portuguese did, but they aren't remembered every time people talk about conquers. Imagine what would have happened to native Americans if UK/USA would have conquered Mexico, Central and South America. They would have been treated in a much worse way, decimating them, keeping them in reserves and letting them make casinos. A worse slaughter is what Muslims do in every place they conquer, but is something politically incorrect to say. |
You learn to read, I'll repeat myself again: It is one of the biggest genocides in human history. The Spaniards used christianity to justify their killings and robbing the continent of its riches, they even put it nicely in a declaration:
"On the part of the King, Don Fernando, and of Doña Juana, his daughter, Queen of Castile and León, subduers of the barbarous nations, we their servants notify and make known to you, as best we can, that the Lord our God, living and eternal, created the heaven and the earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, and all the men of the world, were and are all descendants, and all those who come after us.
Of all these nations God our Lord gave charge to one man, called St. Peter, that he should be lord and superior of all the men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of the whole human race, wherever men should live, and under whatever law, sect, or belief they should be; and he gave him the world for his kingdom and jurisdiction.
One of these pontiffs, who succeeded St. Peter as lord of the world in the dignity and seat which I have before mentioned, made donation of these isles and Terra-firma to the aforesaid King and Queen and to their successors, our lords, with all that there are in these territories,
Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world,
But if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their highnesses; we shall take you, and your wives, and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him: and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us ."
I wonder why today most South American people speak Spanish and are christian.
