Am 20.02.2013 20:48, schrieb MichaelJF:
> I must admit that Adolf Hitler was not the biggest slaughter the world has seen.
> He killed 9 million people. The biggested slaughter in history are the 50
> million Inka killed in behalf of the pope.

Citation needed.

According to Wikipedia, estimates of the population of the Inca empire 
at its peak(!) range from about 4 million to 37 million.

By the time the Spanish conquest of Inca territory began in 1532, the 
Inca empire had already suffered from a present civil war and a smallpox 
epidemic, wiping out an estimated 60% to 94% of the Inca empire's 
population.

While the Spanish did kill all remaining Incas, it is important to note 
that those were only the /ruling/ people. The Spanish had no interest in 
killing the other inhabitants of the empire (people that had previously 
been conquered by the Inca), as they were more valuable as slave workers 
in the gold and silver mines. While this, too, cost countless of lives, 
many more died from epidemics of typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles, 
and again smallpox every now and then.

And still this did not wipe out the entire population of the former Inca 
empire; they lived on as subjects of the Spanish crown, and still 
constitute part of the Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilenian, Colombian, 
Ecuadorian and Peruvian population, together with their old language, 
Quechua.

So not really a slaughter, was it?

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