Ulvehylet

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  • Constantine for example mostly reorganized the empire and legalized Christianity

    Ok fair. But even at the time, it wasn’t a secret that christianity was extremely intolerant. Constantine legalized what both today and back then would be recognized as an extremely intolerant religion.

    Charlemagne’s treatment of Saxons was considered controversial and heavy handed, even at his own time. Also, the Carolingian renaissance is considered very distinct from the renaissance of the 1200s. The crusades are one of the very few events that even the Vatican has gone out to directly state was a bad and harmful idea.

    Edit: what’s even the point of mentioning the reforms of either the last two??? It’s not like it excuses their crimes.

    Christianity in many ways invented the concept of exclusion and religious intolerance. That simply didn’t exist in the ancient world. Bart D. Ehrman even cites it as the main reason christianity prevailed in the Roman empire.

















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    Really depends on what area. There are parts of Mexico where the native population was completely decimated, like the more northern parts, like Nuevo León. Many of the depopulations of native Indians in the southern parts of the modern area of USA also happened when they were part of the Spanish Empire, like the Guale, Timucua and Apalachee of Florida, or the people of New Mexico, and the various people of California.