Was there anyone left alive to attend these universities?
First, remember that the United States didn’t exist until 1776. The Native American population of the territories between the Rio Grande and the 49th parallel, in 1776, possibly numbered 300,000 to 600,000. The sum total of native deaths in the American Indian Wars, as calculated by the army, was about 30,000 between 1776 and 1890. Two to three times that many Amerindians died as a direct result of abuse at the hands of the government—the Trail of Tears being the most famous example. That brings the total Native American deaths by deliberate action of the government of the United States up to 100,000 to 200,000 until the Amerindian population began to recover in the early 20th Century.
The deaths from a typical Spanish colonial conquest are harder to ascertain, but are vastly higher, because Central and South America were far more populated in the 16th and 17th Centuries then temperate North America. For instance, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, which took only a few months, is said to have resulted in three hundred thousand violent deaths. Pizzaro’s conquest of Peru took several years and certainly killed several hundred thousand more.
In all the Spanish conquests, war coincided with virulent small pox epidemics that reduced the native population by half over the course of a few months to a few years. Never the less, the death toll from the Spanish wars were in the millions and the deaths caused by Spanish conquest, enslavement, serfdom, and abuse of the conquered population totaled millions more.
How did Spain treat Native Americans, and how did they establish their relationship with each other?
Spain treated the Indigenous peoples of the Americas with extreme violence, death, torture, mutilation, rape, and enslavement. The Spaniards used their superior weapons, guns,cannons, swords,cross bows, to crush any and all resistance by the Indigenous people. The power of the Church over the Indigenous was used to control them as well. Greed not God drove the Spanish Conquistadores and the priests.
The Conquistadores were trained in rigorously in the use of weapons and warfare tactics. They also had the advantage of using horses in battle and using horses to cover long distances quickly. The treatment they subjected the Indigenous peoples of the Americas was that of a torturer over a victim. Inflicting the greatest amount of death to destroy their civilizations amounted to the genocide of native Americans.
Who killed more Native Americans, Spain or the US?
Spain, hands down, and they did it with a smile on their face. In fact to this day, they brag how they committed genocide here in the so-called ‘Americas’, they are actually quite proud of the raping, torturing, maiming, and murdering of millions of indigenous people here in the so-called ‘Americas’. They gloat about it, they became wealthy off of these atrocities, and if given the chance they would love to do it again. England, Portugal, France, and later the United States committed many more crimes against the indigenous people here, but Spain is by far the worse culprit of them all. And to this day, the so-called ‘Americas’ are still reeling from the consequences of Spain’s brutality.
Even allowing for genocide before the formation of the US, Spain was the genocide champion of the New World.
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