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re: Feb 29, 1504. Columbus Plays Dirty Trick on Indians
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:01 pm to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:01 pm to AwgustaDawg
Nah the Europeans were civilized and the natives were savages. That's why the natives got massacred and the white man took over the continent. The natives were just overmatched...physically, culturally and intellectually.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:35 pm to Scuttle But
You're wrong. Disease, which neither group had any type of handle on, did most of the heavy lifting as far as clearing the way for Europeans to settle the Americas.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:45 pm to blueridgeTiger
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the normally bright new moon
Does not compute...
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:47 pm to SloaneRanger
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No one wants to talk about it, but when the Europeans arrived, these people hadn’t even invented the wheel.
I've read that they had invented the wheel in South America, but only used them on children's toys. The terrain in much of South America was mountainous, or choked with vegetation, so the wheel wasn't of much practical use to them.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:50 pm to blueridgeTiger
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. Columbus Plays Dirty Trick on Indians
opened the first call center?
Posted on 2/29/24 at 2:51 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Here is what Bing Copilot said about that:
Columbus' first voyage was in 1492. He made four voyages to the Americas, this particular voyage was his last voyage. He brought back natives each time and some likely became interpreters. Columbus and also learned their language to some extent as did the priests who traveled with him to convert the natives.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:28 pm to el Gaucho
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Why do we call them injuns
Dot or feather?
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:42 pm to blueridgeTiger
the man who discovered America,
---Columbus never set foot in America
---Columbus never set foot in America
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:46 pm to blueridgeTiger
And
You must mean Christopher Columbo?
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:46 pm to bulletprooftiger
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You aren't more correct than anyone else. Were Europeans savage? Yes. Were the inhabitants of this unnamed continent savage? Also, yes.
Trick question, they were the same.
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A Danish-led international research team has mapped the hitherto oldest genome of an anatomically modern human: the genome of a boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in south-central Siberia some 24,000 years ago.
Surprisingly, the genetic material reveals that the boy was European, which means that a European culture reached all the way east to Lake Baikal.
The really sensational news, however, is that a large proportion (about a third) of all living Native Americans are descendants of the Mal’ta people. In other words, Native Americans have partly European ancestry.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:50 pm to cypresstiger
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Columbus never set foot in America
South America
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:51 pm to cypresstiger
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the man who discovered America, ---Columbus never set foot in America
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:32 pm to blueridgeTiger
Those shipworms were a big deal for woodened ships. They are actually a burrowing clam. After the Hudson River was cleaned up, wooded pilings everywhere were being eaten.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:38 pm to AwgustaDawg
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the people Columbus "discovered" had not invented the wheel, an item they had no use for as they did not carry loads that they could carry or drag (they certainly used logs to roll things on though) and they had also not been practicing torture to persuade others to convert to their religion. Man is a savage, Europeans no more or less than native Americans....
It started as a comment about invention and became about morality. I don’t think those two jibe much.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:42 pm to Auburn1968
gross. do they taste like oysters?
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:47 pm to SloaneRanger
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No one wants to talk about it, but when the Europeans arrived, these people hadn’t even invented the wheel.
No wheel, no draft animals, no metallurgy of bronze (exception was the Inca whom had developed it recently), let alone iron. No gunpowder, no paper, no ability to construct ocean-going ships, limited alphabet, no crop rotation…
This post was edited on 2/29/24 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:49 pm to cypresstiger
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the man who discovered America,
---Columbus never set foot in America
He landed in Venezuela and in what we call Central America. If you look at a map of North America, it includes Central America. He also landed on Puerto Rico. He did not set foot on the lower 48, but he did set foot on what became US territory. He may have also landed on St. Croix.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:51 pm to AwgustaDawg
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the people Columbus "discovered" had not invented the wheel, an item they had no use for as they did not carry loads that they could carry or drag (they certainly used logs to roll things on though)
You’re saying that because they didn’t have wheels, they didn’t need them.
And also because they didn’t perform actions that a wheel would have made easier (had they had them), that they didn’t have a use for them.
It’s like you’re presuming they were aware of wheels and just said “Nah we’re good.”
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