The vast, VAST majority of native americans died from European diseases, rather than European bullets. The Europeans cannot be held morally culpable for that as they did not understand at the time what they were doing. I've been reading "The Wager" by David Grann and Europeans still thought disease was caused by "bad air" in the 1740's.
True BUT they were not very pleasant to the natives either. I mean they called them savages.
Depends on which Europeans, where, and when. The French had a reputation for peacefully trading with natives and one of the lesser-known issues that sparked the American Revolution was that the English rulers wouldn't allow the American settlers to expand west of the Appalachians, so they wouldn't bother the natives living there.
Never knew that always thought the Europeans and the natives almost never got along.
Just to make sure you don't think it's too rosy, none of what I said is to say nothing crappy happened; the Spanish in particular could be brutal rulers and there were several nasty incidents of mistreatment of natives. And 19th century manifest destiny in the US? Oh yeah, that was a bad time to be a Native American.
Oh no I am not going to be visiting a native village during any of these times, To dangerous.
True. What saddens me is not that they are on Thorazine, but that they need it to begin with.
And contemplate what the Indians would do to each other with those guns.
Consider that the "French and Indian War" was the British facing the allied French and Indians.
I don't know what was in the water during the Victorian era. People were getting up to some weirdness there.
Diseases mostly.
Nor was he short... he was 168cm.
I gave up imperial units and never regretted it.
I hate to break it to you, but you better git gud with Imperial if you want to work in the US aerospace industry.
I can work with them don’t mean I have to like it.
But you converted from pounds when you stepped off the scale. If you live in the US, you're stuck with US Customary* units, at least a little.
Every measurement in inches, feet, quarts, and gallons is like a bullet in the heart of a communist.
Well, I mean, pretty much the rest of the world uses metric, so...Every measurement in inches, feet, quarts, and gallons is like a bullet in the heart of a communist.
Hold it! Is the US refusing metric a national security thing? If no one can read stolen documents then they are useless!! It’s almost genius… stupid but genius…Every measurement in inches, feet, quarts, and gallons is like a bullet in the heart of a communist.
To be honest one of the reasons I changed to metric is so I could listen to the BBC…
