Imagine how many Africans were killed over three centuries.

European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say
By Lauren Kent, CNN
Updated 6:52 AM ET, Fri February 1, 2019
An artist's depiction shows Christopher Columbus landing in America in 1492 with the Piuzon brothers.
An artist's depiction shows Christopher Columbus landing in America in 1492 with the Piuzon brothers.
(CNN)When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds.

European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
Carbon levels changed enough to cool the Earth by 1610, researchers found. Columbus arrived in 1492,
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," said UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study's co-authors. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
Before this study, some scientists had argued the temperature change in the 1600s, called the Little Ice Age, was caused only by natural forces.
But by combining archaeological evidence, historical data and analysis of carbon found in Antarctic ice, the UCL researchers showed how the reforestation -- directly caused by the Europeans' arrival -- was a key component of the global chill, they said.
"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people," Maslin told CNN.
The methodology
Researchers analyzed Antarctic ice, which traps atmospheric gas and can reveal how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere centuries ago.
"The ice cores showed that there was a larger dip in CO2 (than usual) in 1610, which was caused by the land and not the oceans," said Alexander Koch, lead author of the study.
A small shift in temperatures -- about a 10th of a degree in the 17th century -- led to colder winters, frosty summers and failing harvests, Koch said.
The implications
The implications of the study go beyond climate science and also contribute to research in geography and history, Maslin said, noting that deaths of indigenous Americans directly contributed to the success of the European economy.
Natural resources and food shipped from the New World helped Europe's population to expand. It also allowed people to stop farming for sustenance and begin working in other industries for spare money.
"The really weird thing is, the depopulation of the Americas may have inadvertently allowed the Europeans to dominate the world," Maslin said. "It also allowed for the Industrial Revolution and for Europeans to continue that domination."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/world/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd/index.html

They are paying for it already.....

Big time!!!!

56 millions native Americans

The native Americans caused it,they were not united.

But is a pity nobody will pay for the death of millions of people.

BabaOwen:
56 millions native Americans

The native Americans caused it,they were not united.

But is a pity nobody will pay for the death of millions of people.

In Peru, 90% were wiped out through the disease the settlers brought such as smallpox to which they had no immunity.

How does being United stop that

grandstar:


In Peru, 90% were wiped out through the disease the settlers brought such as smallpox to which they had no immunity.

How does being United stop that

in mexico 3 out of every 4 native American died as a result of same types of disease brought by the conquistadors, hernan cortez was the conqueror of the Aztec of Mexico and Francisco Pizarro was the brutal conquistador of the Inca empire in Peru.

mysticwarrior:
in mexico 3 out of every 4 native American died as a result of same types of disease brought by the conquistadors, hernan cortez was the conqueror of the Aztec of Mexico and Francisco Pizarro was the brutal conquistador of the Inca empire in Peru.

Reminding an article I posted on Nov 17, 2014
The Last Emperor Of The Inca: Religion, Deceit And Colonization
5000 -maybe more- Inca slaughtered in a matter of an hour ( on November 16, 1532 )
Read more details @ https://www.nairaland.com/2000620/last-emperor-inca-religion-deceit

panafrican:


Reminding an article I posted on Nov 17, 2014
The Last Emperor Of The Inca: Religion, Deceit And Colonization
5000 -maybe more- Inca slaughtered in a matter of an hour ( on November 16, 1532 )
Read more details @ https://www.nairaland.com/2000620/last-emperor-inca-religion-deceit

the native Americans were also weak, lazy and prone to disease that was why they were unable to defend themselves.

panafrican:
Imagine how many Africans were killed over three centuries.

It was a disesse that killed them

Atigba:


It was a disesse that killed them

it wasn't only diseases, so many of them also died by bullets fired from white men rifles.

grandstar:


In Peru, 90% were wiped out through the disease the settlers brought such as smallpox to which they had no immunity.

How does being United stop that

in the USA the Indians there were not united and it really affected them during the quest by the white man to kill them and take their lands, The Navajo fought against the white on their own before they where finally defeated and forced to talk a long walk to Arizona. There were also other notable native American leaders who fought bravely, warrior leaders like Crazy horse, Touch the cloud, Sitting bull who were leaders of the Lakota indians, fought independently, Geronimo who was the Famous of all Indians also lead a small group of Apaches against the Mexican and US army, Geronimo together with 38 other Chiricahua Apache men and a few women were known for their fierceness and Bravery as resistance fighters, Geronimo finally surrendered to the US army and was believed to be "the worst indian that has lived among whites" he gave them hell. If all the Indian tribes in the USA had united to fight their common enemy they wouldn't have been subjected to the harsh treatment they received from the whites and forced into reservations. There were other tribes who also fought for the land, the Chirokees, Comanches, Iroquois, Mohawk, Sioux and Mohicans fought courageously which reminds me of the movie "the last of the Mohicans and Bury my heart in wonded knees.

The Mongolians who migrated into the americas through the bering straits about 4000 to 5000 years ago, destabilized the functioning rules and laws of the Ancient People (Africans) Who were already there, they destroyed those civilizations there that most of Our people had to migrate back into African continent. The ones who were left there intermarried with the mongolians to form a new people called Native americans. The mongolians who didn't continue the migration down south are those today called eskimos. They killed and destroyed a lot of Aboriginal Peoples too.

gatiano:
The Mongolians who migrated into the americas through the bering straits about 4000 to 5000 years ago, destabilized the functioning rules and laws of the Ancient People (Africans) Who were already there, they destroyed those civilizations there that most of Our people had to migrate back into African continent. The ones who were left there intermarried with the mongolians to form a new people called Native americans. The mongolians who didn't continue the migration down south are those today called eskimos. They killed and destroyed a lot of Aboriginal Peoples too.

pardon my curiosity but can I pls ask where you got your information from?

I doubt it was 56 million. There is really no way to know. Just people guessing. Pre Colombian estimates are anywhere from 8-100 million as a population. There was also a lot of mixing and inter marriage which is why there are classifications of mestizo castizo harnizo etc.

Mestizo is a person of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. Half Caucasian/Half American Indigenous. Castizo is used to describe the individuals with an admixture of 75% European and 25% Native American. Harnizo usually means someone that is 60% european and 40% amerindian.

Yes, you can. It depends on what you allow to rule your mind. Study up genetics, in doing so, you will get to know yourself and your people and kind. You would also get to know every other races and how they function.

mysticwarrior:
pardon my curiosity but can I pls ask where you got your information from?

gatiano:
Yes, you can. It depends on what you allow to rule your mind. Study up genetics, in doing so, you will get to know yourself and your people and kind. You would also get to know every other races and how they function

you didn't answer my question, i would really appreciate it if you could give me an acknowledgeable reference on how u came up with your conclusions?

OyinbowithaTan:
I doubt it was 56 million. There is really no way to know. Just people guessing. Pre Colombian estimates are anywhere from 8-100 million as a population. There was also a lot of mixing and inter marriage which is why there are classifications of mestizo castizo harnizo etc.

Mestizo is a person of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. Half Caucasian/Half American Indigenous. Castizo is used to describe the individuals with an admixture of 75% European and 25% Native American. Harnizo usually means someone that is 60% european and 40% amerindian.

when the conquistadors newly arrived in central and south America, there were little people of mixed race like mestizos and zambos, what you see then was large population of native Americans and few whites, with time more white settlers began to arrived and their population increased, while the native population faced a rapid declination from diseases and genocides...most of the conquistadors also took indigenous woman as wives, Hernandez Cortez had a child out of wedlock with the daughter of Montezuma the last king of the Aztec of Mexico.

They are an oral tradition passed from Fathers and Mothers to their Sons and Daughters for generations by all African Tribes not just within the continent but also by Black People in the Pacific, India, Arabia etc. Black People are the best, second to none in the keeping of historical records of everything that has happened, happening and which would happen.

mysticwarrior:
you didn't answer my question, i would really appreciate it if you could give me an acknowledgeable reference on how u came up with your conclusions?

gatiano:
They are an oral tradition passed from Fathers and Mothers to their Sons and Daughters for generations by all African Tribes not just within the continent but also by Black People in the Pacific, India, Arabia etc. Black People are the best, second to none in the keeping of historical records of everything that has happened, happening and which would happen.

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"The Kemet Meso-American Connection Part II

By: Rising Firefly

In the last issue of The Rising Firefly, we began our exploration into the ancient Olmec civilization of Meso-America, albeit the last article pertaining to this topic and the information provided was from a purely academic perspective. There have been hundreds of books and essays published about the ancient Olmecs which attempt to give an in-depth view of the “mother culture” of the Americas. A culture which gave birth to the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Inca and all indigenous American societies that we are aware of today.

While consulting all available colonial academic resources we must keep in mind that colonial research tells the Olmec’s story only from the angle of what the modern world has been made aware of regarding their presence in Meso-America. There is also an indigenous point of view that stems from the birthplace of all humanity, Merita (pre-colonial Africa), that comes to shed more light on the Olmecs and their history. Approaching this subject from a traditional Kemetic (African) position presents a “safer” account because they have succeeded in preserving and transferring knowledge that has survived the superstitions, ideologies, judgments and inaccuracies of modern thought.

The Dogon culture of West Africa is one such group that has preserved and passed down sacred knowledge since the time of the Pharaohs. This particular culture made up the upper echelon of what is known as the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) civilization. The Dogon, which loosely translates into the English word “landlord”, has continued the secret initiations and education of the Mystery School system of the temples of the Nile and Niger valleys for which Itoure (Nile Valley) is famous. Their account of the Olmecs predates the Olmec’s arrival in the Americas, long before the term “Olmec” was introduced.

The world of academia somehow still refuses to admit for certain that the Olmecs were of Kemetic origin. Research conducted by the majority of scholars, who happen to be of European descent, largely claims that the Olmecs were of Asian origin. They have even gone as far as to claim that the colossal stone Olmec heads, which have big full lips and wide noses, are depictions of Asian people. Some of these famous monuments clearly show braided hair from behind that is in a style and pattern that is unique only to what is now called Ethiopia. To assert that the Olmecs were of Asian origin is not accurate, but it’s not very far off either. It was the mating between the two groups, specifically the Kemmioo (Africans) and the Innuits (Eskimos) that expanded the population in the Americas, producing the “native” American culture. The Kemmioo were the first people in America, and they arrived about 50,000 years before Christianity. Many scholars are trying to pinpoint exactly where in Africa the “Olmecs” came from. Master Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, a Dogon/Kemetic High Priest from Burkina Faso, West Africa offered some insight on the topic. “The areas of exchange between the two continents, Merita (Africa) and Maanu (Name for the Americas in the Medu/hieroglyphic language) were so wide that one cannot talk about the Olmecs coming from a specific area of Kemet. It would be like asking which area of Kemet the Blacks in the U.S. came from”, Master Naba stated. Regarding the reasons behind their original journey to America, Master Naba went on to say, “When a civilization expands, it does so with its qualities and its faults. The expansion of the black civilization covered the whole world, and that never happens with a specific objective. The concept of the World of the Dead, the ancestral spirit and the creation are what blacks brought with them wherever they went. It was Kemetic culture that brought to the world the awareness that a human being has a soul”.

History has not hidden the fact that everywhere European culture has set foot, murder and destruction soon followed. The most familiar version of history here in America is that the slaughter of the “native” American Indians was carried out by white settlers, who were mainly of English descent. But there was already a history of bloodshed in America long before the whole cowboy-versus-Indian story. “The Olmec (African) society was the target first of the Vikings, and then of the Conquistadors.

The first genocide in Maanu (The Americas, also known as Abya Yala by the South American Indian tribes of the equatorial regions, Ixachitlan by the Mexikan tribes, and more recently Turtle Island by Canadian/First Nation tribes of the lower lands) was committed against the Olmecs. The people who were later called the Maya, Aztecs, etc. were the re-groupings of the rest of Olmec society that was now a mix of Blacks, [Inuits] and Vikings”, Master Naba added. “Even before mixing with the Vikings, there was the mixing between the Kemetic tribes known as the Olmecs and the Inuit tribes”. (We must note that the term Eskimo is really a derogatory term and is only used as a reference for our readers).

It was this original mix that left room for some modern scholars to claim that the Olmecs were of Asian origin. They really were not. In order to fully understand the relationship between the Blacks and the Inuits, one must first understand the relationship that was established between Merita (Africa) and the ancient Chinese (Asian) Dynasties. Even until now, it has been reported and documented that there are over one hundred pyramids in modern day China. One of them is even said to be larger than the Great Pyramid in modern day Egypt. We will reserve this topic for another issue of this column. But for now, it should be made clear that when the Vikings and Conquistadors arrived on the American scene, the new mix of people they produced was not from consensual matings. It was rape and kidnapping, more so than mating, that produced the Maya and the other Meso-American peoples.

There is little that remains of Olmec culture today. The most significant remnants are the colossal stone Olmec heads that are scattered throughout Mexico and Central America. As stated in the last issue of this column, the Olmec heads are thought to be the representation of Olmec rulers which served to glorify them while alive and commemorate them after death. This, of course, is the academic point of view, but the Kemetic perspective has it that these stone heads were much more than that. “The heads were made as the materialisation of their origin” Master Naba said. “This has a spiritual significance because sacrifices were made at the heads so that they would reach the Neteru (Gods) in the motherland (Merita) before it affected the universe. The heads are actually shrines linked to the shrines in Merita”, Master Naba went on to share.

This knowledge now opens a new door of investigation, especially to those who are technicians (traditional priests and medicine men) in the spiritual field. If the shrines (Olmec heads) are activated through ritual, that would hold great implications. Authentic shrines can affect the energy of any environment where they are constructed in ways man cannot. Maybe there is a reason behind the secrecy of this knowledge, especially for the systems that colonized the areas where the stone heads reside. The Shrine or Jengili provides the Neteru (Gods) a portal through which they can directly affect an environment energetically, making the area favorable or unfavorable for the society that is responsible for supplying the appropriate offerings that are requested by the Neteru. The traditional priests usually dedicate their lives to fulfill such obligations. One can only imagine the changes that would occur in the Americas if the heads were active. Unfortunately, many of the stone heads are in museums or have been defaced. But there are many that remain intact in nature.

Arabs in many shades did far more worse to Africans for centuries, who talks about that?

Keep hating on Europeans who even abolished slavery while neglecting them Arabs who still continue to enslave negroes in Africa.

Ignorant amnesiacs.

y3mi:
Arabs in many shades did far more worse to Africans for centuries, who talks about that?

Keep hating on Europeans who even abolished slavery while neglecting them Arabs who still continue to enslave negroes in Africa.

Ignorant amnesiacs.

pls We would appreciate it if you could kindly trow more light on how "the Arabs did far more worse to Africans in centuries"?

BabaOwen:
56 millions native Americans

The native Americans caused it,they were not united.

But is a pity nobody will pay for the death of millions of people.

Don't be so sure.

mysticwarrior:
the native Americans were also weak, lazy and prone to disease that was why they were unable to defend themselves.

It takes some audacity to invade another man's land and call him lazy while stealing his inheritance. Why didn't the ''hardworking'' Europeans stay in Europe and develop their countries?

BabaOwen:
56 millions native Americans

The native Americans caused it,they were not united.

But is a pity nobody will pay for the death of millions of people.

Africans are the original Native Americans, the present stock are due to a lengthy history of inter-ethnic mix. Africans are native to all the continents of the world including The Americas.

Rossikk:


It takes some audacity to invade another man's land and call him lazy while stealing his inheritance. Why didn't the ''hardworking'' Europeans stay in Europe and develop their countries?

I agree with you. In those days, the Eurocentrics are scroungers, seeking out bits and pieces of other peoples stuff to weild together, steal, loot, confiscate ; causing unbelievable destructiveness anywhere they set their feet.

And now they want to preach some crazy mumbojumbo about themselvess.

They claim to be the the father of this, that and he other.

All are false claims.

I put it to any Eurocentric academic living in the world today, that all their popular assertions that are based on flawed logic, false and misleading perceptions are being force fed to us in our classrooms everyday.

i.e Mungo Park discovered the River Niger.
That is a false, spiteful and misleading statement for him to have made, given that Nigerians are living there before Mungo Park himself was born.

Christopher Columbus discovered The Americas.
That is a false and misleading statement for anyone to make.

y3mi:
Arabs in many shades did far more worse to Africans for centuries, who talks about that?

Keep hating on Europeans who even abolished slavery while neglecting them Arabs who still continue to enslave negroes in Africa.

Ignorant amnesiacs.

I told a friend but he wouldn't believe that those Arabians in Egypt are not the real/ancient Egyptians. Those Arabians must have invaded them, killed them and took over their land.

I put it to any Eurocentric academic living in the world today, that all their popular assertions that are based on flawed logic, false and misleading perceptions are being force fed to us in our classrooms everyday.

i.e Mungo Park discovered the River Niger.
That is a false, spiteful and misleading statement for him to have made, given that Nigerians are living there before Mungo Park himself was born.

Christopher Columbus discovered The Americas.
That is a false and misleading statement for anyone to make, given that Africans are the firsr to discover The Americas.

Theres an argument that suggest he didnt even visit the Americas he claims to have discovered; his vessel was said to have been pushed by the currents towards the Caribbean.

Here was where Columbus made a fool of himself by claiming to have discovered The Americas. Along the years Europes political class have in turn tried to glorify his ignorance.

The main point is that Eurocentric writers lie and cheat all the time.

Eventhough, i definately wouldnt mind the company of the current stock of Native Americans, The Red Indians.

The Red Indians fell victim to their own selfish and corrupted tactics. Everyone always tend to unite when faced with the African.

The Red Indians shot themselves in the foot when they broke a long bond between the mainland and the Americas.

They met various African communities already present, the Red Indians also came from Eurasia into the Americas, we fed the Eurasian stock, clothed them, taught them how to communicate with God and when it came to the crunch, they betrayed their masters.

Between the Red Indians and Eurocentrics there remains a sustained effort in an attempt to try and distort African history and the influence it has on the history of the Americas.

Hotep stuff is hilarious.

AngryNijerian:
I told a friend but he wouldn't believe that those Arabians in Egypt are not the real/ancient Egyptians. Those Arabians must have invaded them, killed them and took over their land.

I agree with you here.

Ancient Egypt is being destroyed by the combine forces of Eurocentrics and the Arabian and Persian fundamentalists.

In antiquity, ancient Egypt often the arena of their monumental battles.

Most of the African people currently living in the North of the continent have set themselves priorities that are unAfrican.