filtered through the eyes of people who've swallowed history as explained to us by the very people who nearly vaporized the very citizens who built these civilizations in the first place, after destroying as much as they could of the culture which went before the Europeans invaded, murdered, tortured, enslaved, massacred, and doomed any survivors to a future of horrendous race hatred, until well into our futures.
In Bolivia, the Spanish descendants call the citizens "llama abortions" and throughout the Americas they are also called "fuckin' Indians."
We can be almost guaranteed we just won't be given an honest account for a long time to come. Gotta try to fill in the blanks ourselves, if possible! That doesn't help a lot, but it does help to realize what we can learn of European real behavior through the centuries of sadistic, brutal control of the beaten down, exploited, and abused indigenous population.
You might remember the bizarre paintings, drawings, etc. made by Europeans portraying the strange creatures they saw when they originally invaded this Hemisphere, even the US Americans. My God! I'm surprised they even bothered to depict them walking upright!
They must have been so proud as they burned up not only the writings of the native people, but also the native people, themselves! Just like the imagined "witches" in Europe. (Who can forget their drawing and quartering of greatly revered Inca kings and leaders in front of their countrymen and women?)
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