Reading What Sucks

It'd be a horrible feeling, to watch that 350 years play out. To be content and on top of the world, thinking that you had done quite well in spite of it all... then to be visited by strangers you did not recognise, with technology and words you did not understand. Dismissing or working with them, only later to discover how powerful and dominant they were to become, and to watch whole nations be wiped out by diseases previously unknown. To have it slowly dawn on you how powerless you really were all along, and how helpless you're to become.

At the dawn of the 16th century, the native population of the Americas is estimated to have been around 100 million (1/6 of the total world population). Over the next 350 years, disease and war reduced that population by %95.

Are those numbers common knowlege? I find them shocking. :/

Note that I don't necessarily blame the Europeans for everything - after all, they couldn't have forseen the how their diseases would be so devastating (in fact they were at a loss to explain why their own settlers were never so badly affected). Not all tragedies have a villian I guess.

You're here, aren't you? You're talking to me, aren't you?

"Over the next 350 years, disease and war reduced that population by %95(Bunk)."

Just think of loss we have suffered as a planet, too. All those languages and cultures disappearing.:(

It has been a long sought question of "who" or "where" slavery orginated.

What comes around goes around.

It has been a long sought question of "who" or "where" slavery orginated.

Some people have always strived to be better off at the expense of others. I think slavery is just one symptom of that. It is convenient for the military superior to have the losing party do free work for them, and it has never been hard to morally 'justify' the fact that your advantage is another person's disadvantage, however far-fetched that 'justification' might be.

Consider yourself hugged.

however far-fetched that 'justification' might be.

Because of a certain author of sci-fi, I never before knew of this evil guy.

All for the sake of greed.

Knowing that such a tradgic event ever took place, makes me wonder about the differences between man and beast. Even beasts of the field have intuition of when enough is enough.

What comes around goes around.