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Skullerprop t1_iuilmki wrote

Reply to comment by Artanthos in Human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns uncovered at site of last Mayan stronghold in Guatemala by GullyShotta

It’s still a genocide.

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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.

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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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