Comment Re:All of history is biased (Score 1) 822
Your post is a bit simplistic. As others have posted-South Africa was dominated by Khoisan people until the Bantu expansion that swept east and south overran them. The Xhosa still show a lot of Khoisan features (Nelsen Mandela has obvious Khoisan facial features)-but the Zulus are closer to the Bantu type.
European brutality is more well documented mostly because Europeans cared to record it and some of them actually objected. Europeans (Spaniards) treated the native peoples like beasts-and yet some in the religious orders dissented and passionate debate were held about the rights of the natives in Spain. In fact, the Hapsburg Emperor Charles tried to prevent the exploitation-but he was too far from the situation to be of much use (he was also involved in something called the Wars of Religion in central Europe).
In contrast, the Aztecs had few ethical debates about engaging in wars with other peoples simply to aquire human bodies for sacrifice. By the way-there is now some evidence that the "native" peoples of the New World displaced older peoples (the Tierra del Fuegans being hybrid remnants possible of the older inhabitants).
European brutality is more well documented mostly because Europeans cared to record it and some of them actually objected. Europeans (Spaniards) treated the native peoples like beasts-and yet some in the religious orders dissented and passionate debate were held about the rights of the natives in Spain. In fact, the Hapsburg Emperor Charles tried to prevent the exploitation-but he was too far from the situation to be of much use (he was also involved in something called the Wars of Religion in central Europe).
In contrast, the Aztecs had few ethical debates about engaging in wars with other peoples simply to aquire human bodies for sacrifice. By the way-there is now some evidence that the "native" peoples of the New World displaced older peoples (the Tierra del Fuegans being hybrid remnants possible of the older inhabitants).
