Two hundred years ago, two peoples separated by vast oceans met each other's gaze on an endless expanse of black earth. With neither language nor writing in common, they could only communicate through the most primitive gestures and signs.
The unfamiliar environment and sweltering climate left the newcomers unaccustomed at first. In a flurry of panic, they drove away venomous insects and wild beasts, pitched flimsy tents on damp soil, and begged the indigenous people, who still lived by primitive means of production, for food.
Under the indigenous people's hospitality, the newcomers soon witnessed the wonders of this land. Gold and precious gemstones lay piled everywhere, and simply tossing seeds into the soil brought bountiful harvests.
Greed drove them to claim the land for themselves, but what urged them on even more was arrogance. In their eyes, it was only natural for advanced civilizations to reshape backward ones.
The occupation and colonization proceeded smoothly. More and more newcomers took root in the unfamiliar land, while the germs they brought spread through the population. Vast numbers of indigenous people died in sudden outbreaks of plague, leaving behind even more land to be occupied.
Human desire was endless. More absurdly, people often could not distinguish between the desire to possess, the desire to kill, the desire to eat, and sexual desire, and had grown accustomed to lumping together every act that could display their status.
After completely subjugating the newly discovered continent, they hunted the indigenous people as though they were no different from deer, cattle, or sheep, while eagerly indulging every desire forbidden by public morality and social convention.
Some illnesses might not have spread through ordinary means, but after more explicit contact and indulgence that violated nature's laws, new pathogens bred in damp, fetid places, like punishments and curses cast