Artanthos t1_iuifj0l wrote
Reply to comment by Reese1313 in Human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns uncovered at site of last Mayan stronghold in Guatemala by GullyShotta
Only the ones not killed by European diseases or enslaved.
Skullerprop t1_iuilmki wrote
It’s still a genocide.
Artanthos t1_iuj2y5y wrote
Never said it wasn’t.
But diseases killed the vast majority of the natives.
The only reason the Spanish won is because the natives were too sick to fight back.
The survivors endured centuries of slavery.
Skullerprop t1_iuj5faq wrote
And who brought the diseases? And who weaponised the diseases once they realised that the natives have no kind of immunity against it?
It was a with multiple extermination methods.
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