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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
Revision as of 14:45, February 28, 2012
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: Interesting tidbit about Kepler, but I wasn't intended to "scold" Galileo but was merely giving a flavor for what science and medicine were like then. Kepler earning money from the emperor is less telling.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:45, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
: Interesting tidbit about Kepler, but I wasn't intended to "scold" Galileo but was merely giving a flavor for what science and medicine were like then. Kepler earning money from the emperor is less telling.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:45, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
== The historiagraphy for this piece is not good ==
De La Casas is hardly the only one who reported the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in South and Central America. The historians who deny his claims are mostly right-wing Spanish historians who were pro-imperialist or ultra-nationalist. He is only really guilty of doing what most Europeans did prior to the 19th century: inflating numbers. He also most likely misattributed deaths to atrocities rather than disease, but his descriptions of the brutality are supported by other, independent sources. [[User:DeLaRojo|DeLaRojo]] 09:45, 28 February 2012 (EST)