this is like people comparing the indigenous african slave trade to the triangle trade - completely facile.
>Rome colonised southern europe
colonization in the ancient world wasn't rapacious like it was in the new world. conquered peoples maintained much of their way of life and simply became vassal. in the roman case (towards the end) they even got roman citizenship.
Edit:I finally figured out hn downvotes - paper over a genocide nbd - use the word facile downvotes
