The Calumny against Columbus

Because there is no limit to the credulity of left-liberals we now have this — within a few a years of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the New World all of the following happened:

1. a plague killed 90 million indigenous people of the United States,
2. which in turn led to the reforestation of North America,
3. which in turn sucked a lot of CO₂ from the atmosphere,
4. which in turn started the Little Ice Age.

Yep, it was Columbus's fault.

The idea that there were about as many people living in North America at the time of the arrival of Columbus as there were at about the turn of the 19th into the 20th century is simply ridiculous.

In 1900, there were several cities with populations of more than a million, and dozens with populations of more than 100,000.

In order to feed those dwelling in these places and for other purposes, highways and railroads crisscrossed the country. To coordinate the economic activities of such a vast population required institutions of commerce and finance, in addition to this physical infrastructure.

Yet there is no archeological evidence of any city of more than 100,000 of the indigenous people of this country or anything like a road network; although, yes, there is archeological evidence of a few scattered large towns and some trails.

Nor was there any folklore of institutions, such as marketplaces and banks, needed by a vast economy, nor any folklore of a mass extinction.

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