The one thing I miss about teaching my 18th century and empire class was the "fuck columbus, specifically" lecture. Because fuck him. All murdering jerks, yes. But specifically that one.
One of the most jarring things for me in history education was in Wyoming grade school. We had to learn about 'Wyoming history', which started with grand tales of the ingenious and wise ways of the indigenous peoples, and then went right into how slaughtering them was justified. Wild.
is there any reason cc gets singled out, among all the murdering jerks ? if what I recall about potosi silver mine is right, CC wasn't even in top 10 for torturing people
Columbus died in the 16th century.
Thank you for your differentiated assessment of historical events.
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That sounds awesome.
He was extremely savage but it's when they got to the mainland that things became Apocalyptic for the Aztecs empire was so Alien to Europeans especially with winged serpent gods there goal was to eradicate the culture destruction as what happened with the native peoples of north America because
But if you take into account the European worldview at the time...nah. You're right,. Fuck him.
If that's how you started the class then I'm quite sure you had everyone's attention! I'm certainly intrigued...
may i ask u. his name real? it seems to describe what he ostensibly did, according to horrible imperial christendom? - christ bearer, w light wing chun is named after ms yim wing chun = secret song of spring her name also describes what she is/ did. shes accused of being mere legend though....