It started in the 15th Century. It happened on both continents, north and south. It was a time of exploration, colonization, and exploitation. The Europeans thought of themselves better because of their embrace of the terrible fraternal twins: Christianity and gun powder . If only they practiced what Jesus taught. They were greedy, rapacious, arrogant, and ignorant. It was the beginning of the Amerindian genocide . Can we learn from yesteryear, grow better from that knowledge, or are we doomed to repeat the worst of our past?
Royals of that day demanded spoils. But their agents in the colonies were no less complicit. So, they stole what they could. They killed those who opposed them, and worse. They eventually destroyed whole cultures, while proclaiming themselves inherent