Do you want the public school version, or the truth?
Public schools tell the tale that the Conquistadors were in it for "God, Gold and Glory" and that they had the right to conquer the natives, and that, due to superior brain power, culture, etc., etc., they defeated the heathen natives.
Truth is that even the priests used native women for sex slaves, used every one as a slave (all those old missions in California were built by natives who were enslaved) that was not killed outright. The Conquistadors had few fire arms; they had few horses. Most of the 20,000,000 natives who died died from the white man's (and later the black man's) diseases. The natives, at that time, were the cleanest people on earth. Unlike Spaniards (and other Europeans) they did not dump their slops (sewage) into the streets and had dog packs and hog packs running through the streets. They were organized; they burned the brush so the forest was kept healthy (fewer wildfires!); they had sanitation; they raised crops better than anywhere else on earth. But, they were not resistant to disease. (Proof that Darwinism is not true!)
Indian slaves were forced to plant sugar cane, rice, tobacco and other crops; forced to build cities and roads; forced to build mansions for the governors and to build the forts and missions! They were given little food, little clothing, little shelter.
2007-09-24 16:20:14
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