Columbus's discovery of the New World , is a major event in history and a major landmark in the history of world navigation.
The white people landed on this previously unfamiliar land and began their occupation career, while the lives of the indigenous Indians were infinitely squeezed. These cruel foreign invaders showed no mercy. They occupied the land that originally belonged to them in .
Instead of living peacefully with the Indians, the white colonists hunted and killed the Indians in an attempt to expel them from the land. Every time I read this history, I feel very hating what white people have done, and sympathizing with what happened to the Indians. But is this the historical truth?
Indians
After some scholars researched Western historical materials , they found that the United States was not a one-sided massacre of North American Indians. It was clearly a hundred-year war. It was a life-and-death fight between the white colonists and the aboriginal Indians .
Due to the lack of information, Indians on the American continent are still at the stage of lagging behind compared to . The Indians lived a primitive life, farming and hunting, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
Until the colonists set foot on this land with sharp knives, the peaceful lives of the Indians were shattered . The colonists held long guns and rode strong horses, ruthlessly killing the Indians.
And how backward are the Indians? is so backward that it has never even seen a horse. They looked at the white people speeding towards them, and they could only be frightened and run away in all directions. How could two feet outrun a four-legged horse? Many Indians were either trampled to death or pierced through the chest with sharp knives.
From an early point of view, it did look like a one-sided massacre of Indians by white people, but this situation of clear distinction between strong and weak did not last long. The killings of the colonists aroused the blood in the hearts of the Indians. In order to protect their territory and expel the white people, the Indians began to fight back.
The dispute between Indians and whites
Although Indians are backward in thinking, it is undeniable that they are also very smart . During the white man's pursuit and suppression, the Indians evaded and learned the colonists' fighting methods.
Whether it was horses or weapons, the Indians followed one after another and began to take the initiative to provoke the arrogant white people. After the American colonists set foot on this land, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom came one after another, all hoping to carve up this untapped sweet potato.
The Indians killed more than half of the first batch of colonists to arrive. The methods were not gentle. They disemboweled them, tore off their scalps and pierced their chests. So this is a struggle to kill each other, a century-old war. The colonists established a stronghold here, and lived here as a matter of course.
The Indians who learned to ride horses and hold spears began to attack the colonists' base areas. Due to the large number of Indians in North America, they had a numerical advantage, so the strongholds established by the white colonists were ruthlessly destroyed.
In 11675, another large-scale battle broke out in North America. At this time, the Indians already had mature combat technology . They originally had a fighting spirit that was not afraid of bloodshed. In this frontal war between the Indians and the colonists, the Indians died more than 200 people, but the other side died thousands people. It can be said that the Indians By relying on their own strength, people reversed the situation where could only be bullied at first.
The colonists launched an attack on the Indians to gain their territory, and the Indians' fighting was not only a counterattack against the colonists , but also had an evil psychology of taking away the white people's wealth, such as money, Food, clothing, etc.
Indians will attack careless white people from time to time, and rob as much wealth as possible with barbaric means. They not only rob wealth but also kill . The Indians invaded the white man's stronghold and killed everyone inside. No matter men, women, old or young, , they could not escape being brutally killed. means cruel , the method is evil.
Indians gouged out white people's eyes, chopped off their limbs , and even cut off the white people's scalps. These white people could only die in deep torture. It can also be seen that there is no one-sided massacre between white people and white people, but a massacre of each other. In any war, there are no absolute innocents.
In history, there were countless battles between the United States and the Indians, large and small, . Each team used various means to kill the other party.
In 1779, white people quietly sneaked into the Indians' territory and burned down their houses, as well as a large area of fruit trees, as well as food, cattle, and sheep. The white people did not let go of any supplies. This method caused a large number of Indians to die of starvation.
The century-long war between the two sides ended with the defeat of the Indians.
Nowadays, these two groups of people live on the same land. Although conflicts between Indians and whites still occasionally break out , they are no longer as large-scale as they were in the past.
The life of the Indians is not only a little better than before, but the problems left over from history that stand between them will probably never disappear.
