Never said it wasn’t.

But diseases killed the vast majority of the natives.

The only reason the Spanish won is because the natives were too sick to fight back.

The survivors endured centuries of slavery.

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Ability to kill =/= civilized.

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The term genocide may be new but war def is not and was not mutually exclusive with genocide before WW2

Post Classic maya “Itzá” they still speak Itzá around the lake and In the rest of peten. They used to be called “los brujos del agua” by the Spaniards.

The Maya still exist, mainly in central america. The area is to this day mayan, yes.

That’s just like, not true…

While the word “genocide” has only existed for about a century, the concept has existed for longer as have localized translations for it.

And saying most wars pre WW2 had the express purpose of genocide is…. not correct. The American or Russian Civil Wars? The Napoleonic Wars? WWI? The innumerable wars of Medieval Europe or Japan? Very rarely are “wars” fought for the sole purpose of genocide. Wars are fought for a variety of reason, however the “wars” fought against indigenous Americans were almost all about either exterminating them or pushing them off their land. Just because the word didn’t exist at the time doesn’t change the fact that these are not wars, they’re genocides.

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Access to potable water < has guns and the ability to cross oceans

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Everything is part of an island.

How did he feel about the promises and agreements of self-rule for Israel (the deal of which was completely butchered and led to the problems that we've seen in the region ever since)?

I don’t think anyone is defending it but Genicide is a relatively recent term, war usually implied genocide up until WWII.

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Not really. Diseases did most of the job. The Spaniards where not really interested in killing millions of people that could be useful. Sometimes the Europeans didn't even need to arrive at a place to exterminate a population, like the people of the Mississippi valley, an advanced civilization with big towns and agriculture, diseases arrived and collapsed that society, by the time the Spanish people arrived only empty towns remained, by the time the French and British arrived nothing was left.

All of the propaganda which portrays the Grifters On Parade as demons and villains can be matched by equally deceptive propaganda designed to portray the Democrats as demons and villains.

Some of this propaganda, put out by both sides, might even be true. Using the truth to tell lies is the hallmark of high grade propaganda.

Do not be fooled into thinking that one or another political party is on your side and fighting the good fight. All political parties are fundamentally corrupt, run by people whose only interest is increasing their own power, wealth, and position.

The most that we as voters can do is play them off against each other and make sure that none ever gain enough power that elections no longer matter, which is something that ALL of them would like to achieve.

It’s still a genocide.

That's what's called a siege, it was a stronghold after all

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I don't think that is a question.

Fair enough. I read it halfway twice before getting through it from the beginning on the third attempt. It is a beautifully written book and I dont think I've ever read a work written with a similar character, even if it did sometimes have a hard time holding my focus.

Thanks so much! I’ll check it out :)

I run a DND campaign in a world where there’s an important temple called The Twelve Pillars of Knowledge.

When my players asked about it, I told them it comprised Five Pillars of Intelligence and Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

No one got the joke. I was disappointed in them.