During early Americas before Columbus had discovered a path to the Americas Native Americas had inhabited the America's. As Columbus arrived he had later on enslaved, destroyed, and kiled of many of the Native Americans. To this day the deaths of these Native Americans remain a stain on the histroy of the United States of America.
Hardy
My oh my how wrong this is. Columbus was looking for an alternate route to India and east Asia, so that the Portuguese and Ottoman stranglehold on the importation of spices from those regions. He surmised that the world was round, and therefore these lands could be reached by sailing out over the Atlantic westward until he reached the indies. As it so happens, he ran into the American continent, which he only later realized was not in fact India. He made brief contact with the locals, then returned to Spain, eventually following up with three more voyages which cemented the fact that this was indeed a whole new world which people in Eurasia had no knowledge of. He died penniless and broke, both materially and spiritually. At no point did he engage in the wanton enslavement or massacre of anyone, whilst neither the United States of America nor any European colony in America exist at this point. These accusations are indeed nothing but libel. Disease killed infinitely more natives than all the conquistadors combined, the causes of which where concepts beyond the comprehension of anyone living at the time.
Accordingarrival was postivie because of the technology brought to the Americas, that is incorrect also. According to Metamuza the Native Americans were not far behind and they actually developed the number zero and made their own sophisticated calendars. to the article Metamuza wrote about Columbus arrival the inhabitans of the Native Americans were peaceful Stainted the minds of the Native Americans making them greedy people and changed their way of life. The people of today had the possibility of knowing that America had a peaceful history but because of Columbus the beginning's of Americas history is more of a violent one.Â
Hardy
The concept of zero and calenders amongst the most civilized mezo-americans hardly makes them the technological equals of Europe. They used no metals. They didn't even use the wheel. How many people in South America went back to the neolithic level of technology of their pre-European ancestors after gaining independence from Spain and Portugal in the late 18th to early 19th century? Clearly, they did benefit from European technology, their suffering was derived entirely from having been conquered. In any case the technological level of a culture or civilization has no bearing on the point at had. Does Hardy mean to say that the extermination and enslavement of anyone without calenders or the zero is okay? The idea that Europeans corrupted the noble savages is also laughable. The Incan and Aztec Empires where forged through warfare, as all Empires invariably are. The Aztec religion necessitated brutal human sacrifice by the dozens or even hundreds regularly. The sacrifices where obtained through tribute or the capture of foes in battle.
Columbus also stains American history leaving a negative legacy because of Columbus need for slaves and disrespect of the lives of Native Americans "They are the best people in the world...they are without kwoledge of what is evil, nor do they murder or steal...with fifity men we could subdue them and make servants of them" Not only did Columbus view of the people of Native Americans as slaves easy to subdue but he then consiered Native Americans not even as people "In Eurepeon maps the NAtive Americans were invisible people, boundaries showed which European nations 'owned' the land, the legacy of racisim lives on today". America is supposed a nation where all people are equal yet because of Columbus arrival to America our history shows us that the descendants considered Native Americans less than people.
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He quotes what was supposedly said by others without giving any sources, which for all intents and purposes allows us to disregard them. Off the top of my head one of those Spanish conquistadors, if anybody, would have made the first statement, and the second is likely from some 1970's marxist searching for any excuse to discredit western civilization since Marx never was able to use logic or reasoning to do so. In terms of supposed American hypocrisy, he is flat out wrong. The very idea that people where created with equal rights by God originated from the Christian and Jewish religious traditions in Europe during the Enlightenment, and was perfected in the American revolution by the Founding Fathers of the United States. Americans codified into law for the first time in history that minorities had rights which could not be abridged by government actions. Everywhere else on earth slavery was the norm, eradication was acceptable, individuals served the collective interest as embodied by the King. As the 'Abd ar-Rah.mân ibn Hishâm, Sultan of Morocco from 1822-1859, put it to a British ambassador regarding slavery:
Be it known to you, that the Traffic in Slaves is a matter on which all Sects and Nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam, on whom be the Peace of God, up to this day -- and we are not aware of its being prohibited by the Laws of any Sect, and no one need ask this question [i.e. whether the trade in slaves be lawful], the same being manifest to both high and low and requires no more demonstration than the light of day.
The Sultan
Has the United States had a perfect record? No, but the US invented the model by which all western nations attempt to operate, it's founding ideals, so anathema to socialists, are the pillars of modern western civilization. This spiteful trite is an insult to every American who has died trying to uphold those ideals, one which Hardy really cant be blamed for since it is all he has ever been allowed to learn from his socialist handlers in public school.
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