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Anthropology

sandensea

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1. Columbus and his brothers were the savages

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 24, 2018, 11:37 PM

Apr 2018

Raping, dismembering, killing children in front of parents, burning people alive, and of course stealing everything that wasn't nailed down - even property which, by contract, belonged to the crown.

The latter, of course, is what ended up turning the crown against them. such that the Columbuses were denied a dynastic governorship of Hispaniola, as they had expected to get.

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Archeologists say early Caribbeans were not 'savage cannibals', as colonists wrote [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2018 OP

Columbus and his brothers were the savages sandensea Apr 2018 #1

Really, really appreciate your science/anthropology posts, Judi Lynn. /nt philly_bob Apr 2018 #2

Judi Lynn, I'm here to offer my thanks! raven mad Apr 2018 #3