Columbus Day

Steven Crowder talks about Columbus Day and the leftist movement to devalue and eventually annihilate Western civilization...

But there is a question which even people like Crowder seem to miss. It goes like this:

Let's play a what–if game. Suppose for a moment that the black death had totally depopulated Europe in the 1450s, leaving not a single human soul alive and essentially removing Christianity from the earth. What would then have happened to the Neolithic tribes and civilizations of the Americas?

I don't believe that the answer to that one is difficult to figure out. That would have left two or three major power centers in the world: a Muslim world dominated by the Ottomans and the heirs of Tamerlane, and Eastern powers including Mongols, China, and Japan and, sooner or later, one of those groups would of gotten to the Americas.

Ottomans would not have gotten to the Americas. The trade/exploration focus was the Indian ocean and Suez.

The most likely version of the thing would have involved Chinese/Japanese or, more likely, Chinese and Mongols getting to the Americas in the kinds of giant wooden ships which the early Ming emperors were building. Nobody could say for sure that Native Americans would've been totally exterminated, but the potential for that would've been substantially greater than was the case with what actually happened. At best, Native Americans who survived would have been totally enslaved.

European settlers were dominated by English people who came here to farm and to practice their own versions of Christianity. What would have arrived on those Ming ships would have been cavalry armies capable of traversing the American continents in two months rather than two or three years, with composite bows and gunpowder seige weapons. That is, a Mongol army or Chinese army using the same kinds of tactics and weapons, would not have had the firepower disadvantage which Europeans using muzzleloading muskets had against natives using bows or atlatls.

And, to top the picture off, there would have been no priests or philosophers traveling with those Ming/Mongol armies to try to save anybody's soul, as was the case with Spaniards and other Europeans.