RE: Can someone help me?
September 7, 2014 at 12:32 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2014 at 12:37 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 10, 2014 at 12:22 pm)ShaMan Wrote: 19,000,000 native people murdered by Catholic invaders. God bless USA
USA wasn't responsible for the catholic invaders, Sha, it was mainly Spain.
The latest archeological and demographic research suggests the number of native Americans who died as a result of Spanish conquest of South and central America much much larger than that, in the vicinity of 100 million. However, what percentage of that is intentional is a harder question to answer. Also, majority of the deaths occurred before the first English speaking colony was established in America.
What is certain is pre-Colombian America had a much larger native population than was thought 30-40 years ago, and dropped by at least 80% within 100 years of Columbus. Majority of the decline was the result of old world diseases brought by the Spaniards for which native Americans had no resistance. But to what extent exploitative Spanish policies exacerbated disease vulnerability and increased the death toll is harder to say. It could well be a substantial percentage.
