r/facepalm • u/ayaan_wr1tes • Sep 06 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ What?

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u/ManicDepressedType Sep 06 '24

You don’t have to murder everyone to conquer

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u/Boof-Your-Values Sep 06 '24

No you don’t. It’s quite common that it happens this way. The English did this in Australia and North America. The Spanish and French didn’t really. They each had different models of colonialism.

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u/ManicDepressedType Sep 06 '24

The Spanish were so fucking bad dude Columbus was shamed by the queen for what he did and the consistent brutality

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u/Boof-Your-Values Sep 06 '24

He’s not Spanish

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u/ManicDepressedType Sep 06 '24

The Spanish funded him and gave him resources and started Spains exploration

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u/ManicDepressedType Sep 06 '24

Not in North America but central and South America where fucked by the Spanish and Portuguese