AS Conquest

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:58:49 EST, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

> Conquerors most of whom are farmers looking for land are an entirely
> different proposition from conquerors who are a small military caste.

And both sorts bring white man's diseases, which in the Americas did much
of the genocide against the natives. The Quechua on the Peru and Bolivia
Altiplano managed to breed back from this disease loss and recover numbers
before white settlers could swamp them, because up there two miles above
sea level and only half an atmosphere of air to breathe, white settlers'
women had difficulty carrying a pregnancy through. Perhaps the same may
save the Tibetans on their high plateau from Chinese settler intrusion.