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2024-10-14 21:54:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 23FEB05863E1802F835AD3EC1D69EC623EDBEB21F1870FB66DBF972514D45DD8
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NNN - Author states facts that Native Americans engaged in human sacrifice, cannibalism, and killed each other to take ("steal") their land. It's OP opinion that it is hypocritical to criticize Columbus because of this. Human Sacrifice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_pre-Columbian_cultures Warfare Over Land: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/popular-books/aboriginal-people-canadian-military/warfare-pre-columbian-north-america.html Cannibalism: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Winter07/jamestown.cfm#:~:text=Cannibalism%20was%20practiced%20in%20some,endured%20into%20the%20eighteenth%20century.
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