2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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From 1492 to 1600, nearly 100 million Native Americans died because the European eruption into the American continents. Colonialism was every bit as negative for First Peoples as were communism and fascism in the 20th century.
Capitalist Colonialism in Asia and Africa was murderous as well. You don't conquer India without killing millions, as the British did.
Now, the 100 million is probably a stretch, as nobody is really sure what the pre-Columbian population of the Americas was. 50 million is probably a better estimate, with most of them south of the Rio Grande.
We are talking after 1917 twit........the modern period.....