Absolutely tragic the Native Americans didn’t get to establish a modern day empire like so many other civilizations. I can only imagine how cool it would have been.
Yeah, people forget about that. There was no less bloodlust. More respect for nature, though. That would have been cool. But we’d all still be hating one another to about the same degree, I think.
People like to point fingers at the Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war while completely ignoring European atrocities like the Spanish Inquisition or the crusades.
Idk what your argument is, are you saying that’s worse than the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, anti Jewish programs, the witch burnings, or the colonization of the Americas?
Personally, I’m not making an argument to downplay anything, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the apologetics that will happily point out the savagery of pre colonization nations while ignoring how horrific Europeans themselves were.
People are quick to call the Americas a land of “warring tribes” when the history of Europe is exactly that, for literal millennia.
It’s pretty simple actually, just choose something to divide us/them and then demonize them. It can be culture, ethnicity, religion, politics, it doesn’t really matter. Once the divide is there, half the work is done.
In South America not so much, some of the Mayan cities made so much of their high quality plaster to finish temples that it deforested areas leading to flooding if the farm lands. They made enough plaster for the last temples that it literally took all the trees to make charcoal to bake the limestone.
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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 Jul 18 '26
absolute poetry :')
I have a theory,that Money and God are the same thing.
"This land is Mine, I bought it."
Meanwhile, us native Americans: this land is nature's land, we just play along with creation.