Bringers of Light and Death: How and why Europeans saw Americans as subhuman
Eliminationism in America, Part 3: Spanish conquerors created the template for centuries of inhuman subjugation after the Catholic Church gave them the green lght. Part 3 of 12.
At the climax of Mel Gibson's 2006 film Apocalypto—which briefly enjoyed No. box-office status after its release—the main protagonist, a young Mayan named Jaguar Paw, is saved, at the end of a long chase through the jungle from a pack of Mayan warriors determined to kill him, by the arrival on the scene of a band of Spanish conquistadors, complete with …
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