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deird1My job this week has mostly involved dealing with already published history textbooks. Which was interesting! I spent most of yesterday thinking "Ooh! Polynesian navigation!" and "Ooh! Vikings!" and "Ooh! Mongol golf tournaments!" and wishing I had time to just read.
Today, though...
Today I was dealing with Columbus discovering America. So I spent an hour growling at Columbus for slaughtering people.
Then... I moved on to the people he'd been slaughtering. Specifically - the Aztecs. And after a couple of hours editing stuff on human sacrifice, I was very squicked out and starting to be on Columbus's side.
But eventually I stopped having to read about Aztec sacrifices! ...and started reading about the Black Death. In excruciating detail. *sighs*
(Poor Black Death people. I kinda want to build a time machine just so I can go back and teach them hygiene. They were all so baffled about them dying!)
Today, though...
Today I was dealing with Columbus discovering America. So I spent an hour growling at Columbus for slaughtering people.
Then... I moved on to the people he'd been slaughtering. Specifically - the Aztecs. And after a couple of hours editing stuff on human sacrifice, I was very squicked out and starting to be on Columbus's side.
But eventually I stopped having to read about Aztec sacrifices! ...and started reading about the Black Death. In excruciating detail. *sighs*
(Poor Black Death people. I kinda want to build a time machine just so I can go back and teach them hygiene. They were all so baffled about them dying!)
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:29 am (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2012-09-21 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-21 06:18 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2012-09-22 03:19 am (UTC)Columbus enslaved and slaughtered people in very different places from the Aztecs, with very different cultures from the Aztecs. Calling them Aztecs would be sort of like calling Celts Mongolians.
Also, Columbus was so extremely horrific in his enslaving and slaughtering, he was actually recalled to Europe. Because in an era when Europeans were slaughtering and enslaving non-Europeans en masse, Columbus was just that bad.
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Date: 2012-10-18 03:40 pm (UTC)