I know the spanish killed a lot of the natives, but all of them? I believe there was some mestizaje going on.

You are right! That is why I think the "No mixing" thing that Juanky said is BS. Of course there was mestizaje. However, many indians died while under the Spaniard Yoke. Most died because of the sexual transmitted deseases and illnesses that the Europeans brought to America. Someone needs to learn how to read.

 

I said thanks to the all Spanish No Indian Mix. Which applies to my family. Never did I say that was all of the country, in fact it takes a special brand of person to dig that deep and make up that kind of BS.

 

And second, the Spanish killed off 99.999999999% of the Indians in Cuba, there was no other country where they killed off more people. Most of the Cuban mestizaje came from White-Black, barely any if any at all came from White-Indian and Indian-Black.

I thought it was the small pox that did it, because it was the natives of north and south america that gave Europe syphilis.

 

As I promised, I did some research and this is what I found:

 

It's likely that researchers will never come to an agreement about where syphilis originated and how it arrived in the Old World. The most widely accepted theory is that the venereal form of the disease arrived on the shores of Europe along with Christopher Columbus's crew, when they returned in 1493 from a journey to the New World. Indeed, although no cases of the disease seem to have existed in Europe before Columbus sailed to the New World, it had reached epidemic levels on the continent by around 1500. But in recent years, pre-Columbian skeletons -- such as those unearthed at the Hull friary in England -- have been found with distinctive signs of syphilis. Those skeletons have turned the nice, tidy picture of New World origins into a muddy mess [.....] But other researchers say that there is simply too much evidence of pre-Columbian syphilis in the Old World to ignore. Archaeologists have found ancient skeletons with tell-tale signs of syphilis, such as thickening in the lower leg bones and pitting in the skull, at half a dozen sites in England, and also in Italy, Israel, and other locations in Europe. The clear implication is that the venereal form of syphilis was already present in Europe before Columbus's voyage. "There is a suggestion that it might have originally come from Southeast Asia and then maybe spread both east and west," says biological anthropologist Charlotte Roberts of the University of Durham in England

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As you can see, it does not appear that the indians actually gave syphilis to the Europeans. The sickness spread through Europe after the Discovery of America. That is why it was blamed on Columbus and his crew. Syphilis is also known as the "French Disease"... You can never go wrong by blaming the french

that does make sense, thanks for the research :thumbup

 

I always thought it was unlikely that Henry got syphilis by having sex with people that would of had sex with the people in the same socioeconomic classes of Colombo's crew.

 

Now I will no longer believe that again!

 

Now here's a good question. Hawaii has native islanders...now, how the heck did humans get there in the middle of the pacific ocean? They would have to build massive boats to survive a journey like that. And how many years ago did that ocurr? I always found that weird.