• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    He is far from distinguished in that endeavor. What makes him relevant to history is the part where he found people to brutalize, way the fuck elsewhere.

    The Mongols just saw some towns out across the grasslands and said “I’ll have that.” Ad nauseum.

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        9 months ago

        Historical nitpicks and footnootes. The unambiguous inflection point for all of Europe going “holy shit, new lands” was that Italian schmuck and his three boats.

        Leif and company went “hey look, more Greenland” and barely amounted to Discovery channel dramatization. The century after Columbus’s return transformed three continents.