Pants-of-dog wrote:The Victorian era: when the UK finally figured out plumbing and not living in their own feces.
Meanwhile, the Mexicans who were drinking chocolate in 1491 were also flushing away their waste and bathing daily at that time.
Mexicans are Spanish mainly. You mean Aztecs I guess, those charming people that were enthusiastic about human sacrifice right up until the jackboots of Spanish Catholicism stamped the habit out of them.
QatzelOk wrote:The natives of North America were genocided by the Victorians. (The Mexican region was semi-genocided by the less racist-by-5% Spanish)
There was no deliberate genocide, both north and south americans were destroyed by disease
unwittingly brought over by europeans, Spanish included (in fact spain first!) The populations of south american were larger than the north due to their more sophisticated civilisation hence why more remained after the epidemics stabilised.