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laodan discovered 24 months ago
The Old New World Once and a while the language of truth sticks its head above the fray. Here is one such moment. The Americas are most often portrayed as having been lightly populated backwaters inhabited by savages before Europeans set foot on the continent.... Reality is far from that image. Europeans commited indeed a genocide at the continental level and plundered the survivors of the gold, silver and precious stones that their societies had accumulated over past centuries. After the crusades this was the second boom in Europe's accumulation of richnesses that later eventually transformed into capital... via Arts&Letters Daily in American Scientist by Michael D. Coe """ It is a rare textbook on world history that does not begin its account of the past in the Western Hemisphere with the European invasion that took place soon after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Almost all of the achievements of Pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations have been systematically neglected or depreciated by most Western-oriented scholars. How was it that small bands of gold-hungry conquistadores could have defeated the armies of empires with populations that numbered in the millions? Was much of North America an almost empty land waiting to be developed by more advanced colonists? """ URL: The Old New World
