source: SteveGruber.com
David Kamioner: Before the Western explorers arrived, disease, tyranny, tribal infighting, barbarism, and other such fun was rife. I’m not saying the Spaniards got there and everything turned to Skittles and unicorns. But, the road to civilization was begun. The native mayhem and carnage that had gone on for hundreds of years, if not more, would have continued unabated if the explorers hadn’t arrived and, by serious trial and error, cleaned up the joint.
