Why aren't the Indians more grateful?

[The Valkyrie]

Alrighty them.

Trolling bullshit is one thing...

But, if you're serious then you're calling the progressive slaughter of around a hundred million people across the Americas "a little roughed up".  You're calling the rape and genocide of entire peoples "a little roughed up".  You're calling the ruining of the way of life, the systematic stealing of their land, and forced resettlement onto reservations "a little roughed up".

Did you know that the Native Americans were among the first victims in history of biological warfare?  After all, what else would you call it when European settlers gave them blanket infected with smallpox?

The trail of tears?  What else can that be called other than a death march?

They didn't build cities?  What do you call some of the remarkable cities spread around South and Central America?  Or those to be found in the Southern US?

And even if many tribes lived a nomadic lifestyle over thousands of years, who are you to judge them?  Their lifestyle suited them otherwise they wouldn't have lived that way for so long (and don't you DARE state that they lived that way because they were somehow inferior to Europeans).

And European civilization?  Several thousand years of near continual warfare, genocide, atrocities and greed.

So, to quote Orochi, above: Fuck You!

European civilization likely wouldn't exist as we know it if we hadn't gotten the package of crops from the middle east that was the foundation of european agriculture.

Let's not forget that while Europe wallowed in the dark ages, Middle Eastern culture was the booming centre of science and other human knowledge.  It was the Islamic scholars who kept alive the writings of the Greeks, while in Europe such things were seen as heretical.  Hell, one of the most important ancient writings rediscovered in recent history was a workbook of Archimedes that had been turned into a Christian prayer book.

It's just something of a shame that the Middle East has gone the way Europe was 500 years ago.