I mean, I’d be confused and concerned too if a time travelling European from the 18th century stepped off a boat in 1492
native ppl: these dudes are sickly, scurvied, and so pale they look like they’re about to die, we have to give them food
europeans: they bring us offerings! they must think we’re gods, probably
The white people as gods myth likely comes from Australia where pale people were thought of as ghosts and treated well and given things they’d need on their trip to the aboriginal afterlife of sorts.
To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.
Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?
Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries
Edit: why was this downvoted? If I’m wrong please tell me, I’d like to learn :)
In some roman language like french too !
Spanish too
some latin languages as well!
It’s called history.
I couldn’t give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals
Arabic numerals are the devil’s numbers!
It’s in the username!
Gets off the boat, gets out his gun: “Let me show you a magic trick!”
When men were men 🥰
Imagine a few days later everyone he got into contact with getting horribly sick and dying.
While that happened, and vice versa, this info often tries to whitewash USAs war on indigenous people, and systematic genocide to irradicate the “savage natives” https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
Both can be (and are) true, while the Europeans and later Americans did many things that would now be classified as genocide and ethnic cleansing, the majority of the native population simply died inadvertently of diseases. It’s actually unlikely that the Europeans would have been able to so thoroughly conquer the Americas if the native population would have survived the first wave of diseases.
This makes me think you did not read the full article and the timeline. Of course the indigenous people survived the first wave of diseases. The majority did not die out, This is why the colonizers were later fruatrated with the situation of trying to expand into more land. There are so many historic books about the systematic elimination of “Indians”. The diaease trope is what is taught in american school so we can feel detached from their ultimate demise. But if you don’t have time to search and read, just look at this wiki link on how many were genocided rather than the paltry few you think were left over from disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
And then hands you a cool blanket.
Apparently this is largely a myth, somebody did try it on a single occasion but it doesn’t actually work to spread smallpox. That guy was clearly an arsehole, but yeah, apparently it wasn’t a thing. I don’t know how important this is given the near total genocide of the Native Americans, but it’s funny how some things become “common knowledge” and some things never really get out. Soap made of Jews is another one - it was apparently an urban legend at the time due to the letters written on the rationed bars of soap. Again, more than enough evil to go around without the soap. It does seem that one insane commandants wife collected people’s tattooed skin and likely did make a lampshade out of human skin. People say that didn’t happen, but there’s a pretty convincing photograph out there of all the seized items at one camp. Can’t remember why I started talking about this, think I was trying to distract myself from a stomachache.
Americans forget their history because it is not widely taight to them, so the smallpox prevails, but history channel put together a good summary of American Genocide https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
the fact that in an era with relatively few records, there is a recorded intentional attempt to spread smallpox (
even if incompetent)is plenty to assert that the Europeans intentionally spread smallpoxedit: the CDC does say contaminated bedding can spread smallpox. reconsider the sources telling you it’s a myth
This is the final evolution of the Trump take over. The upper crust will all start wearing blonde feathery wigs and painting themselves orange to demonstrate their genetic superiority. Oh and a suit two sizes too big.
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What a floating dollhouse. Can’t believe they are even moving, talking. It was a really weird experience.
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