• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    The USA would still be a colony of Britain if it wasn’t for a violent revolution.

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        8 hours ago

        The Native Americans would have been much better off if they had simply strangled Columbus and all his crew the moment they made landfall…

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          7 hours ago

          I get the humor in what you say, but it’s worth noting that the Native American civilizations were collapsing due to disease brought by earlier European visitors by the time Columbus set sail.

          Granted, history probably would’ve been largely the same if Columbus’ expeditions were unsuccessful, given the English, French, Dutch and Spanish appetites for empire building

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            There’s a saga that is about “what if Columbus arrived to America but never got back to Europe?”. It’s “the tale of the feathered serpent”.