>>213083610
I'm not excusing anything. I'm telling you you're wrong.
European conquests were no more egregious or cruel than the others throughout history.
>[Tamerlane] forged an empire stretching from the Levant to India, ruling through a potent blend of military prowess, cultural patronage, and unrelenting brutality. Among the most gruesome hallmarks of his campaigns were the systematic erection of pyramids of human skulls—not as random acts of barbarism, but as deliberate instruments of psychological warfare and imperial communication
>In 1387, the city of Isfahan rebelled against his authority. In response, Timur ordered the massacre of approximately 70,000 inhabitants. Their skulls were methodically collected and arranged into 35 towering pyramids. In Sistan, according to contemporary sources, around 2,000 people were incorporated—still living—into a mortar of clay, forming the literal building blocks of a grisly tower. This pattern continued across the Timurid campaigns: in Delhi (1398), some 100,000 prisoners were slaughtered in a single day; in Baghdad (1401), 90,000 heads were arranged into 120 towers. At Aleppo, Damascus, Tikrit, and Sivas, skull pyramids stood as macabre testaments to Timur’s passage.

The only unique thing here is the criticism only goes one way. Pretending the natives of the Americas or Africa were treated exceptionally harshly is wrong and the idea that they were noble or innocent of their own forms of evil is wrong.

The aztecs deserved annihilation. The rest should merely be thankful they continue into the current day.