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Columbus was bad enough, but what followed after him was worse. The Tainos and other island tribes were cursed to have gold jewelry. If they had never had it t
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
Columbus was bad enough, but what followed after him was worse.
The Tainos and other island tribes were cursed to have gold jewelry. If they had never had it the Columbian discovery of the Americas may not have been that much bigger a deal than the Viking discovery of the Americas.
- xref 3y agoIt was always going to go the way it did, because of sugarcane. Columbus introduced “white gold” in 1493 on his second voyage even. By 1515-1520 there were sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and the Portuguese had them in Brazil.