Alexandre Fedorovski
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History is a set of lies agreed upon
Napoleon Bonaparte
The first reviews showed that it is necessary to step back a little bit from the planned draft of the assay and turn to the subject of historiography of the “Discoveries of the New World” and the tragic events of an unprecedented planetary scale that followed.
Let's start with the terminology. Firstly, you cannot discover an inhabited land. Otherwise Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein or Bush the Junior would be not the war criminals but the outstanding “discoverers”.
The history we have been taught is a myth. Myths are so fraught with meaning that we live and die with them. They are “maps by which cultures navigate through time” (Stolen Continents. The New World Through Indian Eyes. Ronald Wright, p.4). The myth of “discovery” has transformed historical crimes into glittering icons. While Western myths are triumphalistic, those of the “losers” are of a drama.
Now, about historical facts.
About WHO discovered America. The fact that the Vikings visited America 500 years before Christopher Columbus is a scientifically proved.
Why are there no monuments to America's true discoverers in America? Or what is relevant is Columbus’s ethnic or religious affiliation?
Due to the “Factory of Dreams”, excuse me, “... Of the Lies ...” Native Americans were represented as backward, undeveloped, lacking things that signify the European “human technological progress” - lack of a plow and of a wheel. Or writing… (well, as we found out, Maya hieroglyphs WERE a writing!). And NOBODY noticed that without oxen or horses that did not exist in America, these tools were useless!
The apologists of the “rightness” of the European colonization of America say that Inca Empire fell because it was an “anthill” society whose subjects had no free will. They assert that ancient Peruvians simply stood around and allowed themselves to be butchered by a handful of the European scoundrels with crosses on their necks. Why? Because the conquerors brought to Peru the pearl of individual freedom !!!
Does that not resemble the American neoconservatives’ “Operation Iraqi Freedom” of our time ???
For Inca contemporary of Shakespeare the smelly invaders turned the world “upside down” (they did not take baths and Native Americans did it on daily basis (they had to put flowers into their nostrils to stand the stink coming from the bodies of the Spaniards.
The Aztecs of Mexico, the Maya of Guatemala and Yucatan, the Incas of Peru, the Cherokees of the Southern United States, and the Iroquois of the Great Lakes - all of them left multiple written accounts of the first encounters with the European invaders and the conflict.
American high school and university students graduate from with the false knowledge that a “typical Indian” was a nomadic hunter. In fact the majority of them lived in villages, towns and cities long before the stinky criminal Columbus defiled their land with his feet.
Mexico City, the Aztec capital held a quarter million people - four times more than Tudor London. It controlled the total population of 20 million.
In 1492 the British Isles had only 5 million people. Spain - about eight.
Asia and Africa have been decolonized. That didn’t happen to America. Why are Native Americans not represented at the United Nations ??? Why none of the Native American languages are used as the official languages of the United Nations?
Languages of the “primitive peoples" ??? But Guinea and New Guinea are governed today by descendants of their original inhabitants who were much less developed than most of the peoples of ancient America ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
The first reviews showed that it is necessary to step back a little bit from the planned draft of the assay and turn to the subject of historiography of the “Discoveries of the New World” and the tragic events of an unprecedented planetary scale that followed.
Let's start with the terminology. Firstly, you cannot discover an inhabited land. Otherwise Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein or Bush the Junior would be not the war criminals but the outstanding “discoverers”.
The history we have been taught is a myth. Myths are so fraught with meaning that we live and die with them. They are “maps by which cultures navigate through time” (Stolen Continents. The New World Through Indian Eyes. Ronald Wright, p.4). The myth of “discovery” has transformed historical crimes into glittering icons. While Western myths are triumphalistic, those of the “losers” are of a drama.
Now, about historical facts.
About WHO discovered America. The fact that the Vikings visited America 500 years before Christopher Columbus is a scientifically proved.
Why are there no monuments to America's true discoverers in America? Or what is relevant is Columbus’s ethnic or religious affiliation?
Due to the “Factory of Dreams”, excuse me, “... Of the Lies ...” Native Americans were represented as backward, undeveloped, lacking things that signify the European “human technological progress” - lack of a plow and of a wheel. Or writing… (well, as we found out, Maya hieroglyphs WERE a writing!). And NOBODY noticed that without oxen or horses that did not exist in America, these tools were useless!
The apologists of the “rightness” of the European colonization of America say that Inca Empire fell because it was an “anthill” society whose subjects had no free will. They assert that ancient Peruvians simply stood around and allowed themselves to be butchered by a handful of the European scoundrels with crosses on their necks. Why? Because the conquerors brought to Peru the pearl of individual freedom !!!
Does that not resemble the American neoconservatives’ “Operation Iraqi Freedom” of our time ???
For Inca contemporary of Shakespeare the smelly invaders turned the world “upside down” (they did not take baths and Native Americans did it on daily basis (they had to put flowers into their nostrils to stand the stink coming from the bodies of the Spaniards.
The Aztecs of Mexico, the Maya of Guatemala and Yucatan, the Incas of Peru, the Cherokees of the Southern United States, and the Iroquois of the Great Lakes - all of them left multiple written accounts of the first encounters with the European invaders and the conflict.
American high school and university students graduate from with the false knowledge that a “typical Indian” was a nomadic hunter. In fact the majority of them lived in villages, towns and cities long before the stinky criminal Columbus defiled their land with his feet.
Mexico City, the Aztec capital held a quarter million people - four times more than Tudor London. It controlled the total population of 20 million.
In 1492 the British Isles had only 5 million people. Spain - about eight.
Asia and Africa have been decolonized. That didn’t happen to America. Why are Native Americans not represented at the United Nations ??? Why none of the Native American languages are used as the official languages of the United Nations?
Languages of the “primitive peoples" ??? But Guinea and New Guinea are governed today by descendants of their original inhabitants who were much less developed than most of the peoples of ancient America ...
