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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1707671" data-attributes="member: 14980">So did they exterminate or merely enslave the rather large and well-developed human civilizations ALREADY in the so-called "New World"?  At the time of Roman expansion, the "naked savages" of the so-called "New World" were culturally about on par with the people of the "Old World", or at very least as "advanced" as were the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, the builders of Jericho, the Hebrews, the people of Catal Hayuk, etc.Contrary to the lies told to us in public school, the "New World" was not some pristine garden, totally wild, utterly untouched by the "hand of man", only having the tiniest sprinkling of quaint savages, living in this positively ADORABLE "harmony with nature".  Europeans exterminated these cultures, some times two or three generations BEFORE any Europeans actually set foot in an area.  Disease travels fast.  By the time Europeans got to a lot of these places, all but a few of the locals had been slaughtered by diseases and infrastructure breakdown.  If your society completely collapses, it doesn't matter if it happened three generations ago or three millenia ago.  All you will probably know is that "once, long long ago, things were better", but now that is all forgotten.So you have enormous "mysterious ruins" that you avoid because they have the "curse" of once being nests of disease--very sensible, actually.  But the Europeans, who are resistant to these diseases, only see completely empty ruins and no "curse".  Obviously, YOU and your savage brethren NEVER could have built this sort of wonder, so the Europeans make up stories about "Lost Hebrew Tribes" or some sort of mysterious "lost civilization" that disappeared two thousand years ago.  It isn't until good stratigraphy and carbon dating get employed that the Europeans suspect the truth, but by then it's too late.  The schools firmly and steadfastly indoctrinate the children that the "New World" was some sort of empty, pristine garden, untouched by "the hand of man", with only the tiniest sprinkling of quaint savages, living in this positively ADORABLE "harmony with nature".</blockquote>

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