AS Conquest

[petegray]

>> Enslavment is much more profitable than extermination

> -- this would be news to the American Indians, the Tasmanians, the Australian
> Aboriginies, the San hunters of southern Africa, and innumerable other
> groups.

Remember timing!  Enslavement, however attractive, was not an option in the
American midwest, nor in Australia.  If these countries had been invaded in the
15th century instead of when they were, things might have been different.

A better example might be Spanish America.  Did the Spanish still accept
slavery at the of the conquistadors?

Peter