Do you have any idea how unifed the Six Algonquin Tribes were? Apparently not. Doesn't matter.
Yeah? All true, not germane to this issue though.
Huh? Yeah, the nation Germany did not yet exist until the 19th century. What that has to do with this issue I surely do not know.
I think you're wildly discounting thye importance of pathogens to the outcome of the native Americans. Why I am not sure.
To prove that the EUROS were brutal? I don't doubt that for a moment.
They killed the survivors of the plagues that killed MOST of the native people, to be sure.
They even started USING Smallpox to do that in some cases.
You should read this book, if you haven't. If you're interested enough to debate this issue with me, you will find this book fascinating, I think.
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FYI, this didn't just happen to the Amerindians, either.
This pathogenic disaster happened to the polynesians we encountered in the Pacific hundreds of years after we'd started colonizing the Western Hemisphere, too.
We came to this continent with guns germs and steel.
Of those three things, germs were the dominent reason we so easily took over control of that continent.
It isn't just this book which documents this, either.
In practically every book I read about the first encounters of ERUOs to the natives of the Western Hemisphere, we see exactly the same thing happening.
The explorers are wildly outnumbered...then the plagues wipe out huge numbers of natives and the cohesion of their society falls apart.
Basically the EUROS (who seem like GODs because they aren't sick) pick up the pieces and end up dominating the surivors.
Imagine what would happen to this nation if 90% of the population died in a generation.
Do you honestly think we could defend ourselves from a small group of technologically superior warriors who weren't dropping like flies?
Those disasters didn't just kill the people, the fact that so many of them died killed the SPIRIT of the suvivors too.
Their priests could not protect them from the mysterious plagues.
But the White men were unafffected.
Maybe the Whites men's GOD IS a stronger god than ours?.
Maybe everything we knew was wrong?
The psychological effect on the suvivors of these events was devastating to the people who survived.
Their world views were dashed by these events.
How easily one can subjegate a people whose world views and religios beliefs have completely failed them.