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It would appear that all former empires have one common factor contribution to their demise…too may people living off two few resources.

FACT : a thinning of the herd is always beneficial to those herd members surviving the thinning.

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

The Truth:

There’s a pretty important detail our movies and textbooks left out of the handoff from Native Americans to white European settlers: It begins in the immediate aftermath of a full-blown apocalypse. In the decades between Columbus’ discovery of America and the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock, the most devastating plague in human history raced up the East Coast of America. Just two years before the pilgrims started the tape recorder on New England’s written history, the plague wiped out about 96 percent of the Indians in Massachusetts.

In the years before the plague turned America into The Stand, a sailor named Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed up the East Coast and described it as “densely populated” and so “smoky with Indian bonfires” that you could smell them burning hundreds of miles out at sea. Using your history books to understand what America was like in the 100 years after Columbus landed there is like trying to understand what modern day Manhattan is like based on the post-apocalyptic scenes from I Am Legend.

“They call it ‘The city that never sleeps’ because the only guy who lives there is a notoriously sarcastic rapper.”

Historians estimate that before the plague, America’s population was anywhere between 20 and 100 million (Europe’s at the time was 70 million). The plague would eventually sweep West, killing at least 90 percent of the native population. For comparison’s sake, the Black Plague killed off between 30 and 60 percent of Europe’s population.

While this all might seem like some heavy shit to lay on a bunch of second graders, your high school and college history books weren’t exactly in a hurry to tell you the full story. Which is strange, because many historians believe it is the single most important event in American history. But it’s just more fun to believe that your ancestors won the land by being the superior culture.

European settlers had a hard enough time defeating the Mad Max-style stragglers of the once huge Native American population, even with superior technology. You have to assume that the Native Americans at full strength would have made shit powerfully real for any pale faces trying to settle the country they had already settled. Of course, we don’t really need to assume anything about how real the American Indians kept it, thanks to the many people who came before the pilgrims. For instance, if you liked playing cowboys and Indians as a kid, you should know that you could have been playing vikings and Indians, because that shit actually happened. But before we get to how they kicked Viking ass, you probably need to know that …

http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html

Anonymous
Anonymous

Another common factor, as they begin to collapse they turn on their own people.

We’re starting to see that demonstrated again.

TE
TE

@Flash, that was phenomenal, thank you for that.

Not sure I believe the % die off though, you would think we would still be uncovering piles of bones if those numbers were true. And, even though the Natives had no natural immunity to the Old World diseases, they did have incredibly strong immune systems not polluted with Europe’s then insanity into chemicals and healthy diets.

Thanks again.

As for the video, I love Hedges, so I’ll be back to listen later.

wip
wip

@flash
that was fascinating. I think I’ll buy the book if LLPOH says it’s correct.

Welshman
Welshman

Flash,

Good stuff, enjoyed it. I have been finding out the last 20 years that most of what you learned in school was bullshit.

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