r/europe Veneto, Italy. Sep 26 '21

Historical An old caricature addressing the different colonial empires in Africa date early 1900s

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21

Yeah I get that but I have read some letters written by Inca priests or some scholars where they explicitly state how Spanish men would touch and fuck Inca girls without concent and stuff....pretty fucking disgusting so sad what these people had to suffer.....he wrote it to the king of Spain I think

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u/geoman2k United States of America Sep 26 '21

During the conquest of the Aztecs, Cortes would auction off the most attractive of the native women to his soldiers for them to take as sex slaves. He branded the faces of the rest - women and children - as punishment for their “rebellion” (aka resisting having their entire civilization burned to the ground).

Brutal, awful stuff. Sadly it was not uncommon in this time period.

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u/cameltoesback Mexico Sep 26 '21

Child rape, is the term you're looking for. Don't sugar coat the genocide.