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Spain and Portugal are unfairly maligned by the Black Legend: it was the diseases that killed the Americas.
Drawn from what Ed Barnhart said
SubjectAmerica
What Ed Barnhart actually said
- Ed Barnhart Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center
I think that the Spanish and the Portuguese get unfairly maligned in what’s been called the Black Legend, that they just marched into America and murdered everyone. That’s not the fact. It was the diseases that murdered everyone.
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