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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3734965" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Columbus never set foot on the North American mainland and was vastly outnumbered by natives and his technology wasn't much more sophisticated than theirs.  He was a real SOB no doubt, and was harsh on natives he dealt with, but his exploratory trips had minimal interaction with natives.  It was the conquistadors who conquered Mexico and Peru, amongst other places, that were super hard on the natives.  Yet they didn't commit genocide.  And in North America the various early colonies in Jamestown and along the coast of Massachusetts were the first to spread disease that quickly spread amongst the native populations.  They didn't go out and slaughter the natives although eventually there was war between them and various groups as the settlers spread westward.</p></blockquote><p></p>