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Hell, YOU usually have at least one misspelling...

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Thanks for your concession that you can find no overt conservative bias in the latest draft curriculum.

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Well, the fact that I haven't found it concedes nothing, since I also haven't READ it yet.

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It’s also commonly taught that disease brought by the Spanish killed off the Aztec empire, were in reality the most recent evidence suggests that it was a North American disease similar the Hanta virus.

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I'm curious; do you have any cites for that claim? On its surface, it seems a bit outrageous. Is there any name or record of this mystery disease? I only ask because Hanta virus, or really ANY of the hemorrhagic fevers, are really quite rare, and generally an "outbreak" consists of a dozen cases or less, so it seems a bit of a stretch to lay the devastation of an empire of more than twenty million all at the feet of such an historically rare disease.

I'm not trying to be snarky or disagreeable, either; this is honestly the very first time I've ever heard this postulated as THE cause for the collapse of the Aztec civilization. My gut feeling is that there were MANY root causes for its decline and fall. If the rest of world history is any indicator, it was an empire already in a state of decay and decline, and the diseases brought by the Conquistadors weakened the population further, which would make them more susceptible to diseases which were already around, but not particularly lethal nor overly communicable (hemorrhagic fever outbreaks tend to burn themselves out rather quickly BECAUSE they're so ungodly fast at killing their hosts, often before they can infect others, thus ending the diseases transmission vectors). This, in turn, further weakened a civilization that was now knocked down to its knees, coupled with the toppling of their "god"-leader by the Spaniards, which brings a lack of faith in the old ways, and a general malaise and lethargy about the civilization as a whole, until the once-proud followers simply disappear into the wilderness to seek a new way.

Point being, it's rarely ONE SINGLE THING that can be seen as the absolute ending occurrence that puts the final nail in an empire. It's a systemic falling down, a collapse of several societal parts at once.




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- Added "... and philanthropy of industrialists"

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Ask Southeastern Asia, and I'll bet they'd have a difference of opinion on whether we were practicing "aggression", too.

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As to Curtiss, why not Jack Northrop instead? Why not Kelly Johnson?

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You can argue about their impact, but surely a far greater number of American bombers would have been lost to the Luftwaffe without the efforts of the fearless escort pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group.

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As for Hobby's contributions, MacArthur called the WACs his "best soldiers", and asked for more of them to serve in his command, because they were more disciplined, worked harder, and complained less

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But I can see why conservatives would want to leave out the contributions of blacks and women to the military, since they never wanted either to serve in the first place.

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