Thread:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/@comment-46.255.154.194-20160602195025/@comment-26347028-20160623070051

The Indomitable wrote: Oh gee, such a good influence. Creating lots of crappy, unnatural borders, such a big help. Consider if they hadn't arrived, then what would have happened? Look at the middle of the Americas before the conquistadors arrived. They weren't as barbaric as the conquistadors thought, but they still were far behind. Look now, then, at the product of the conquistadors. A good, and mostly free, society. Parts of Africa already have this, albeit to a lesser extent. But you cannot argue that they would be so developed had the Empire never existed.