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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Did Spanish Conquistador was war criminals?

Dasimen
Posted: 17 Jun 2016, 5:05 pm 

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I recently read that the conquistadors are responsible for ethnic cleansing during the Spanish Reconquista, reportedly murdered Muslim and Jewish population of Spain, forcing it to adopt Christianity. The same thing happened later the South American Indians. The Spanish Reconquista was (as the name...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Did Spanish Conquistador was war criminals?

Dasimen
Posted: 17 Jun 2016, 4:47 pm 

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It is sort of funny that the US seems to get the bulk of the blame for killing off the Amerindian peoples when disease and the Spanish did much much more. They conquered empires and destroyed civilizations, there were none anywhere near what was in central America in what would be the continental U...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: Did Spanish Conquistador was war criminals?

Dasimen
Posted: 17 Jun 2016, 10:57 am 

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We can't judge the past as if it were the present. In History (my major), the first and principal mortal sin is "presentism". Maybe if those events happen today the conquers would be considered as war criminals, but not in the 16th century. Retroactivity is not allowed from a legal point o...
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