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Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias

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Focus on history books around events and people, not theological works. The Vedic period. The decline of Rome and rise of Christianity from Judaism. Scandinavia's gradual conversion from paganism to Christianity. Charlemagne, the Great Schism and the Holy Roman Empire. Late Vedic period when Romani left N. India. Dhimmi of the Caliphates and Ottoman Empire. Massacre of the Cathars. First Sichuanese massacre by Kublai Khan. The Mongols' laws regarding faith. Spanish Massacre of Jews in 1391. Martin Luther nailing his theses. Massacre of Han/Sichuanese by Jingxuan. Henry VIII. Bloody Mary. Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (in Spanish, or an English translation). Dzungar genocide of Tibetans by the Qing. Armenian massacre. Holocaust.