Quote: Originally Posted by petros
With rifle and sabre against stone? history degree? BULLS hIT
You don't read very well, do you???
Try again.......what I said was
"The natives of America practised war, murder, torture, cannibalism, and mass human sacrifice
long before the arrival of the white man."
Perhaps you could explain what "rifle and sabre" have to do with history before the arrival of the White Man?
The Aztecs participated in contests known as "Wars of the Flower" in which the object was to collect as many prisoners as possible. These were used as human sacrifice, sometimes in astounding numbers. In one instance, in 1486, there were an estimated 20,000 young men sacrificed in a single festival of mass murder that lasted 4 days. They also sacrificed women and children on extra special occassions.......but most of the murdered were young men.
In university I did a project on the alleged "genocide" of the Beothuks of Newfoundland........what a joke! It turns out that yes, the Beothuk may have succumbed to genocide at the end....perpetrated on them by the Mic Macs.......after the Beothuk population was decimated by disease and misfortune......
Perhaps you should be a little more careful in your accusations.....the study of history has been one of the focal points of my interest....and you, obviously, don't have a clue what you are talking about....
BTW, rifles did not become popular until the latter part of the 1700s, and they did not become dominant in warfare until the Civil War of 1860 to 1865. I'll explain why, if you are interested.......