It was an interesting way of looking at history, it was somehow less racist than what came before it (instead of being like "skill issue that you were colonized", it at least went "well there were environmental factors)

He goes into detail about questionable stories being taken at face value, since conquistadors tended to exaggerate their exploits to get more recognition.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

When I read it as a kid, it was the first thing I ever read that tried to answer the question of why the world is the way it is in a materialist way. Most history books have even bigger nonsense in them like "Thomas Jefferson's ideas caused Americans to be hard working and freedom loving :)", compared to that the theory of "this place had all the farm animals" seems pretty plausible.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

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