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30,000 years worth of missing genetic immunity to essentially every disease imaginable wiped out native populations in the Americas and precipitated the collaps
by aegypti 3y ago
30,000 years worth of missing genetic immunity to essentially every disease imaginable wiped out native populations in the Americas and precipitated the collapse of civilizations there, actually.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoThat's irrelevant. The point of the story, if you missed it, is that Europeans were not interested in adopting the Native American way of life and assimilating. Cortez didn't arrive in Mexico and swear loyalty to the local king, and adopt their religion
- aegypti 3y agoCortes’s expedition of literal conquerors arrived by fighting for their lives the moment they met a state, let alone an empire. Europe and its institutions failing to incorporate wildly conservative religious citizens has a lot more historicity than attributing “immigration” to the implication of native tribes in a post-apocalyptic pre-USA (it’s never Mexico or Peru) being culturally, physically, and biologically colonized.
- Zetobal 3y agoBecause wildly conservative religious people tend to abuse their religion to push their personal agenda. Hell you could say some candidates are pondering to them BECAUSE they know they are easily manipulated without upholding the core of their religion.
- chewz 3y agoIt is relevant as most migrations in Eurasia for centuries were not of replacement but of assimilation kind.
- singleshot_ 3y agoAnother point of the story is that new populations are either going to assimilate (which could be great for the pre-existing population) or they aren’t going to assimilate (which could be pretty bad for the pre-existing population).
- coldtea 3y agoFunny how the millions directly enslaved and slaughtered didn't matter.