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  1. Feb 2023
    1. “I saw with these Eyes of mine the Spaniards for no other reason, but only to gratify their bloody mindedness, cut off the Hands, Noses, and Ears, both of Indians and Indianesses.”22

      This shows just how evil the Spaniards were killing innocent people for no reason.

    1. Prehistoric Settlement in Warren County, Mississippi. Mural by Robert Dafford, depicting the Kings Crossing archaeological site as it may have appeared in 1000 CE. Vicksburg Riverfront Murals

      It is interesting how they knew a pryamid top on a house made it best for air flow and to fight against weather conditions.

    2. The Puebloan people of Chaco Canyon faced several ecological challenges, including deforestation and overirrigation, which ultimately caused the community to collapse and its people to disperse to smaller settlements. An extreme fifty-year drought began in 1130.

      This seems almost like a great depression of the 1100s