• DragonTypeWyvern
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    7 hours ago

    And was removed from his governorship because he was an evil motherfucker even by conquistador standards.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      Not by conquistador standards, conquistadors weren’t a thing when he died. He was the Caribbean governor and conquistadors conquered the rest of americas some years after he died.

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        1: Would you agree that the Spanish systemically conquered the Caribbean islands to establish the base of operations they needed to expand on the mainland?

        2: What does conquistador directly translate as?

        3: Was Columbus specifically removed because he was bad even by the other conquered islands’ standards?