@Yanny:
EmuGod,
The American Indians, in a mere 600 years, went from ruling two continents, numbering in the tens of millions, and being relatively civilized, to a few hundred thousand (Or maybe a million? Not sure how many are left) people who live in the desert in poverty.
Partly because of disease, mostly because of genocide.
Yanny, going back 600 years a lot of Jews died and suffered, and not as much by disease as by their firendly neightbours. Let me list a very brief set of events in Jewish history for you from 600 years onward:
France:
1. 1306 & 1322 - Jews expelled
2. 1321 - 160 Jews buried in an enclosed pit at Chinon
3. 1394 - Final and complete expulsion of Jews from northern France
4. 1388 - No Jew allowed to live in Alsace-Lorraine
5. 1420 - Jewish Community of Toulouse Annihilated
6. 1789 - Jews emancipated after French Revolution (Napoleon instituted decrees once again forcing Jews into ghettos a few years later)
7. 1845 - Anti-semitic books published by Toussenel
8. 1854 - Anti-semitic books published by Gobineau
9. 1886 - Anti-semitic books published by Drumont
10. 1894-1906 - Strong anti-semitic feeling during Dreyfus Affair - a French captain accused of treason because he was Jewish. Mobs shout out in the streets, “Death to the Jews!”
Germany:
11. 1880 - Karl Eugen Duehring writes his article “The Question of the Jews Is a Question of Race” which appeals to many.
12. 1879 - The Twelfth edition of Wilhelm Marr’s “The Victory of Judaism over Germandom” is published where Marrs coins the term “anti-semitism”.
13. 1879 - Anti-semitism supported by many intellectuals
14. 1881 - Anti-semitic League becomes active in its recruits
15. 1882 - Anti-semitic Party wins Parliamentary Seats
16. 1882 - Ritual Murder charges by Xians lead to mob violence against Jews in Xanten.
17. 1892 - Synagogue burned by a mob in Neu Stettin
18. 1933-1945 - Adolf Hitler comes to power and begins the Holocaust through his “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem”.
Austria-Hungary:
19. 1882 - Ritual Murder charges by Xians lead to mob violence against Jews in Tizsa-Eszlar.
20. 1885 - Anti-semitic Party launched in Linz
21. 1897-1910 - Anti-semitic mayor of Vienna speaks against Jews and legislates against them.
Bulgaria:
22. 1884-1904 - Frequent mob violence against Jews.
Rumania:
23. 1866-1914 - Government support of anti-semitism leads to the flight of 70,000 of Rumania’s 125,000 Jews.
Poland:
24. 1648-1656 - Chmielnicki MAssacres lead to the death of 100,000-200,000 Polish Jews.
Russia:
25. 1563 - Jews in Polotzk who refused baptism drowned.
26. 1825 - Jewish centres in Tula, bobrov, Pavlovsk, Orlov and Saratov destroyed and Jews exiled to Siberia and Caucasus.
27. 1654 - Annexation of of territory gives Russia a large Jewish community, many of which was immediately murdered.
28. 1903 - First publication of “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in St. Petersburg.
29. 1905 - “Union of the Russian People” founded carries massive attacks against the Jews, causing 2 million to suffer.
I left out lots of events from many areas of the world including the United States, Britain, Italy and even from the countries I did mention. This is a very very short list that is missing a lot of information.
BTW, Welcome back TG!