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> I used to live in Mexico México is not the US grassland, different geography, different groups, and therefore different consequences as the populations were
by CyanBird 4y ago
> I used to live in Mexico
México is not the US grassland, different geography, different groups, and therefore different consequences as the populations were wiped out by disease, infighting and war
Not to mention, simply because there still are a non trivial amount of indigenous groups, that doesn't mean that there didn't used to be even more variety that is now extinct
- mickdeek86 4y agoHave you heard of the Cocoliztli epidemics? Three massive waves of a still-unidentified disease resulting in 90+% depopulation of Mexica peoples in the 50 years following Spanish arrival. The reason there are native Mexica people (my own mitochondrial haplogroup is of the Aztec vintage, through my Mexican matrilineage) is because the Spaniards married (or, ahem, otherwise impregnated) native women. The chaste and Christian Anglo-Americans were virtuous enough to simply ethnically cleanse their Indigenous peoples. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics#/media/File:Acuna-Soto_EID-v8n4p360_Fig1.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics#/media/Fi...
- imbnwa 4y agoOne argument for the difference is that the Spanish were much more accustomed to ethno-cultural hybridization as the Reconquista had only ended right before 1492 or so