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all of you shitting on columbus are a bunch of hypocrites. columbus was the man. what he did was fucking epic. he sailed three ships into the unknown in a time when most europeans thought the world was flat. going on a new theory hoping to find a new way to get to india while risking falling off the face of the earth. that takes some real rocks.

 

 

 

 

^REAL TALK.

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So would you call the black death a "genocide" too? More than 90% of natives in the new world died from diseases such as smallpox and cholera. People overlook this fact way too much. Not to say colonists weren't shady, but genocide is a misleading term. They didn't just come out here and murder everyone. And don't bring up the smallpox blanket argument.

 

Dunno what I think about Columbus. If he hadn't done what he did someone else would have.

 

 

In the times before "settlers", Columbus and the men brought over following his discovery did horrible things in the Caribbean. The book referenced earlier by Zinn outlines the atrocities, but as an example, they used native peoples to test the sharpness of blades because they were seen as that disposable and inhuman. The blankets and stuff happened significantly later and in a different region affecting a different people and done by a different group of murderers.

 

National Geographic also did a story on it you can look up if you're so inclined. You won't.

 

/No Cross Fire

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^Fool, who are you?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn

 

Education:

 

B.A., New York University, 1951.

M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1952, 1958.

Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1960-61.

Early career:

 

Professor of History, Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. 1956-1963.

Professor of Political Science, Boston University, 1964-1988.

Military Service: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, Bombardier, flew combat missions in Europe, 1943-45.

 

Books

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In the times before "settlers", Columbus and the men brought over following his discovery did horrible things in the Caribbean. The book referenced earlier by Zinn outlines the atrocities, but as an example, they used native peoples to test the sharpness of blades because they were seen as that disposable and inhuman. The blankets and stuff happened significantly later and in a different region affecting a different people and done by a different group of murderers.

 

National Geographic also did a story on it you can look up if you're so inclined. You won't.

 

/No Cross Fire

 

This is perfectly within what I was saying. I was looking at the big picture. Like I said, colonists were often fucked up. I don't disagree. I just think "genocide" is a gross exaggeration.

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Drug tests reveal cocaine and nicotine which only grew in western hemisphere:

Here is one example but more tests have been done on other mummies with similar results.

 

http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/Misc/mummies.htm

 

coca leaves are chewed by natives as a stimulant

 

it provides a cure for altitude sickness as well as provide energy

 

it wasnt until the WHITE MAN started experimenting and synthesized cocaine that it became a hard drug

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all of you shitting on columbus are a bunch of hypocrites. columbus was the man. what he did was fucking epic. he sailed three ships into the unknown in a time when most europeans thought the world was flat. going on a new theory hoping to find a new way to get to india while risking falling off the face of the earth. that takes some real rocks.

 

 

All he had to do was ask the muslims, they knew the earth is round.

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they're also saying that the developement of language and culture is too old to have bread out of chinese crossing he ice-bridge

 

 

i was speaking of the native americas/indians

 

 

as for mexico being a trading ground.. it was... there arethese statues that were a part of a burial ritual... these statues had real human hair..

 

hair from asians to polynesians were found in mexico a long with many other cultures.

 

how do you think they got pyrimids in mexico?? some motherfuckers from egypt were travelling

 

this world isnt that big

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All he had to do was ask the muslims, they knew the earth is round.

 

so did the Jews and the Asians (more accurately the Chinese). Theres is also evidence that suggests that the Aztec and Mayans may have known too but he couldn't have asked them.

 

The Europeans were a little behind the times because of the churches aversion to (what was then) modern science.

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I actually wrote a high school paper several years ago on the trade currents that run from Africa to Mexico and then to the Polynesian Islands. If you are down, hit me up, Ill forward it to you.

 

"Two of the major currents that exist in the Atlantic Ocean are the Equatorial Guinea Current and North Equatorial Canary Current. The Equatorial Guinea Current runs from southern Africa into the Gulf of Mexico and continues north forking off into several other currents. The North Equatorial Canary Current also ends in the gulf, but its origins begin along the North African coast and the coast of Spain and Portugal. Both of these currents are very interchangeable, meaning that at some point in travel these two currents meet and continue in an ongoing circle. It is also nearly imposable to break free from these powerful currents once a vessel has contact without the use of a motor."

 

Sources

Ivan Van Sertima, They came Before Columbus

Harold G. Lawrence, African Explorers of the New World

Thor Heyerhdahl, Kon-Tiki

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get a debit card

 

Thats what the injuns did. wit the casino $s

 

 

 

 

and yo did anyone even read the artical on the first post? it seems like this thread turned into " can a farce get you money or out of school". if columbus can have a day why cant the savages that were here have one?

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I actually wrote a high school paper several years ago on the trade currents that run from Africa to Mexico and then to the Polynesian Islands. If you are down, hit me up, Ill forward it to you.

 

"Two of the major currents that exist in the Atlantic Ocean are the Equatorial Guinea Current and North Equatorial Canary Current. The Equatorial Guinea Current runs from southern Africa into the Gulf of Mexico and continues north forking off into several other currents. The North Equatorial Canary Current also ends in the gulf, but its origins begin along the North African coast and the coast of Spain and Portugal. Both of these currents are very interchangeable, meaning that at some point in travel these two currents meet and continue in an ongoing circle. It is also nearly imposable to break free from these powerful currents once a vessel has contact without the use of a motor."

 

Sources

Ivan Van Sertima, They came Before Columbus

Harold G. Lawrence, African Explorers of the New World

Thor Heyerhdahl, Kon-Tiki

 

 

pwned!! you drunkenasshole whatever the fuck your name is

 

but yeah.. send me some info on that one.. i've been intrigued for a while on that

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pwned!! you drunkenasshole whatever the fuck your name is

 

but yeah.. send me some info on that one.. i've been intrigued for a while on that

 

 

 

 

How so? What the fuck does that have to do with what I said?

 

 

People are fucking stupid. All Columbus did was find the shit. He aint have nothing to do with the colonization and wars with the natives other than him and his peeps defending themselves. And he sure as fuck didn't have anything to do with the slave trade.

Blaming Columbus for slavery or killing off the natives is like blameing George Washington for Vietnam or Iraq.

Some of you people are really dumb.

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