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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
Columbus was pretty bad ass and just outsmarted some dumb savages.
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Here is how "savage" the people Columbus encountered were.
In Columbus's own words:
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The inhabitants . . . are all, as I said before, unprovided with any sort of iron, and they are destitute of arms, which are entirely unknown to them, and for which they are not adapted; not on account of any bodily deformity, for they are well made, but because they are timid and full of terror. . . . But when they see that they are safe, and all fear is banished, they are very guileless and honest, and very liberal of all they have. No one refuses the asker anything that he possesses; on the contrary they themselves invite us to ask for it. They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for trifles, content with the very least thing or nothing at all. . . . I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection, and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princes and all the people of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need.
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Yep, they sure sound like some nasty mother fuckers, don't they?
By the way, he returned their favors by kidnapping about 25 or 30 of them, of which only 8 survived.
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