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Well...and even during the most competitive and severe colonialist/imperialist periods on earth, extermination was very much the exception and not the norm.
by ertian 3y ago
Well...and even during the most competitive and severe colonialist/imperialist periods on earth, extermination was very much the exception and not the norm.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThe worst extermination was accidental -- disease, or famine.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoAccidental? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/229.html https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/229.html
- ertian 3y agoThere were instances of deliberate disease warfare in America, but that was already centuries after something like 80% of the population of the Americas was killed by diseases that early European explorers didn't even know they were spreading.