• @[email protected]
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    371 month ago

    The USA would still be a native american land if millions of people had not been wiped out by Europeans

    • @WoodScientist
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      221 month ago

      The Native Americans would have been much better off if they had simply strangled Columbus and all his crew the moment they made landfall…

      • @[email protected]
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        91 month ago

        I get the humor in what you say, but it’s worth noting that the Native American civilizations were collapsing due to disease brought by earlier European visitors by the time Columbus set sail.

        Granted, history probably would’ve been largely the same if Columbus’ expeditions were unsuccessful, given the English, French, Dutch and Spanish appetites for empire building

        • bufalo1973
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          51 month ago

          There’s a saga that is about “what if Columbus arrived to America but never got back to Europe?”. It’s “the tale of the feathered serpent”.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            That sounds super neat. When I google it I find these books amongst other more confused seeming results. Is that the right ones or is it something else?

            • slingstone
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              21 month ago

              Yeah, I found the same books, and they don’t seem like the right one.

      • @Cosmonauticus
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        71 month ago

        You can say that about almost everywhere white explores showed up