Syphilis - Europe ☞or☜ New World?

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Historic Dispute : Did syphilis originate in the New World, from which it was brought to Europe by Christopher Columbus and his crew

Viewpoint: Yes, syphilis originated in the New World and was brought to Europe by Christopher Columbus's crew.

Viewpoint: No, syphilis was a disease that had long been in the Old World; it was simply a coincidence that it flared up shortly after Columbus's return from the New World.

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http://www.scienceclarified.com/dispute/Vol-2/Historic-Dispute-Did-syphilis-originate-in-the-New-World-from-which-it-was-brought-to-Europe-by-Christopher-Columbus-and-his-crew.html
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A Jew knew how to treat it by using scripture, all he had to do was stand with his penis in a running water stream for 7 days...

 

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Why do we celebrate Columbus Day when the only difference between Columbus and his minions and ISIL is; ISIL has the modern weapons of war?

Genocide​

What happened on La Isla Española in significant ways has no precedent in world history. Until the gold strike in the island’s mountains in 1499, which made Columbus a rich man and was the first vindication of the whole Indies business, there was no gold found in significant quantities. Instead of chopping off endless hands, a new variant of a Castilian traditional system was imposed in response to a revolt by Columbus’s men who wanted land and slaves for themselves. It quickly evolved into the "encomienda" system. It was slavery in everything but the name. The natives were given to Spanish "care" and taught good Christian principles while they were being worked to death, if they were not beheaded on a whim.

For all of Columbus’s rhetoric, conversion apparently was never implemented on Española, except when they began enslaving the natives in the "encomienda" program. That is a rich irony, as Columbus immediately began calling himself the "Christ-bearer," although his efforts did not convert any natives.[26] "Death-bearer" would have been more apt. The gold strike of 1499 was when Columbus finally hit pay dirt. While the natives lasted, there was finally a genuine gold rush on Española, the first of many in the New World.

Columbus’s passion for gold was more than mere greed. He invested it with supernatural, divine qualities. Not long before he died he wrote:
"Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise."[27]

Columbus literally thought that gold was the ticket to heaven. Columbus eventually fell out of favor with the Crown, and Francisco de Bobadilla and Nicolás de Ovando succeeded Columbus as the governor of Española in 1500 and 1501. The devastation of Española continued unabated, and Ovando was even more ruthless than Columbus. The mines were being worked furiously and natives were dying at an incredible rate. In 1503, the island's southeastern and southwestern regions had not been completely conquered. Presiding over the southwestern region, known as Xaraguá, was Anacaona, the highly respected widow of Caonabó, the cacique who received the gift of those shiny manacles.

In 1503, Ovando went with 360 soldiers to Xaraguá for the stated purpose of improving relations with the Taino. Anacaona graciously welcomed Ovando and his men, housing and feeding them. All the region’s caciques were summoned to welcome the Spaniards. The natives were either amazingly forgiving, or naïve. During that celebration, at a sign from Ovando, his soldiers fell upon their unsuspecting hosts. They slaughtered everybody in sadistic fashion - cutting children’s legs off, etc. After enough people had been killed to satisfy the Spanish bloodlust, the soldiers herded the remaining caciques into the royal hut and set it ablaze, burning them to death. What Anacaona must have felt, after the deceitful capture of her husband years before, can only be imagined. Ovando had some warped sense of honor. Instead of disemboweling or burning Anacaona alive, they hanged her.[28] Nearly all of the region’s leadership, 84 caciques, died in the massacre, and that region was swiftly conquered. The next year the southeastern region of the island was "pacified" using standard Spanish brutality, and there was not much resistance from the fast-dwindling native population.

The dogs that the Spaniards brought were large, strong breeds such as mastiffs and greyhounds, trained to kill. Dogs had been used in European warfare clear back to the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Persians, which is where the phrase "let loose the dogs of war" came from. In Europe, the warfare was against armored opponents, and the dogs often wore armor themselves. In the Caribbean, where the people were naked, and in the New World in general where warfare was practically unknown in the European sense (large battles of extermination), the dogs were murderously effective. The invaders would set loose the dogs and they would easily kill and maim the terrorized people.

Infants’ bodies are soft, and were quite a tasty treat for the dogs, so the Spaniards regularly fed infants to their dogs, alive, and at times while the horrorstricken parents watched.[29] The Spaniards had contests to see who could cut a living person in half with one stroke of the sword. They would test the sharpness of their blades by beheading the nearest handy native.[30]
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