Who do you think was the most ruthless coloniser?

[TravelingMaaike]

I can think of Christopher Columbus, John Smith (Pocahontas fame), James Cook, etc.

[lightbulb27]

probably one of the somali pirates/barbary pirates that enslaved so many Europeans to who knows what demise. I don't know why liberal universities aren't teaching more about the treacheries of the African's and specifically the pirates. They just show up in the movies as "good guys". unreal.

It's also possible it is UAE/Dubai in their modern day enslavement system and mistreatment o women. Instead of colonizing, they are reverse colonizing drawing people in and enslaving them into their system. Brilliant!

[OddBeMe]

Were those guys colonizers? Smith actually was I think, pretty early on. Took a 14 yr old Pocahontas back to England? I don't know.

I do love the telegram Columbus sent to Queen Isabel of Spain: These Indians were nice and gave us food and shelter. They could be easily conquered and enslaved.

He seriously sent that. I paraphrase but he has a national holiday in our country…lol

[Brokenheartedx]

They weren't colonisers, they were conquerers simple fact thays gone on since the very first homo species.
Who was the most ruthless conquerers, the answer is easy.. The homosapiens they had to to get rid of the stronger previous versions of upright apes

[Date_a_Snob]

they werent colonisers they were explorers

[Anonymous]

If you read the history of South America you can see how murderous & cruelly ruthless the Spanish colonisers were

And ask Indonesians how they feel about there more historically recent Dutch colonisers who were especially racist & brutal

[A_Bell]

Attila. Ghenghis Khan. Chairman Mao. Shaka Zulu.

[Anonymous]

King Leopold II

It's estimated that he killed an estimated 10 million Congolese people.

[TravelingMaaike]

I have heard of him

[Staximus]

Probably the Spanish, they changed the whole bloodline from Mexico down to the bottom of South America, and in the Philippines

[AviatorTom]

If you study history, you'll find that the British Empire was established using extremely brutal tactics.

[Brokenheartedx]

And doesn't it piss off larger countries that the British went to.. Every fkin day since they've banged on about it.

[Andres77]

Belgium, the Congo. Leopold was exceptionally vile and wicked.

[AngryCarl2]

None of those, it was the Portugese guy. Hernan Cortes. Read some history eh?

[ericclayton]

Cortes was Spanish.

[Anonymous]

it's a tie between all the native tribes who fought, killed, enslaved, tortured, and raped their neighbors while taking over their land throughout history.

[DerekC321]

Hernán Cortés. He was really bad...

[purplepoppy]

George Washington

[Anonymous]

The Spanish Conquerors.

[Luckycharms12]

British empire as a hole were herrific

[gorydetails]

lol, you use the term colonizer unironically?