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Diversity in crops meant better farming. Better farming meant fewer farmers were needed to feed a city. Fewer farmers meant more administrators, priests, artisans, and engineers. More of all of them meant more innovation. More innovation led to steel, firearms, ships, sextants, and advanced forms of government. All of that stuff led to the Europeans sending ships to America, rather than vice versa. Diversity also lead to Europeans/Asians/Africans being exposed to a much, much wider variety of plant-born and animal-spread diseases, and therefore developing natural resistances to them. Native Americans, having a much narrower range of flora and fauna, didn't develop that. As someone else pointed out, these germs ran wild in America once they were introduced, and killed something like 95% of the Natives before the Europeans even landed in force. It was pretty brutal, but also unintentional - the follow-ups, however, were both brutal and very intentional. Quote:
The Europeans probably would never penetrate past the Appalachians, and if they did, they would never in a million years be able to maintain a supply line across the Great Plains. It would be *teeming* with Natives, and given the expertise the plains tribes developed with horses once they got them, the Europeans would be helpless against the lightning raids. |
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11-14-2012, 04:57 PM | #3 |
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I am a real Native American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real Native American, fight for what's right, fight for your life! When it comes crashing down, and it hurts inside, ya' gotta take a stand, it don't help to hide, Well, you hurt my friends, and you hurt my pride, I gotta be a man; I can't let it slide, I am a real Native American, Fight for the rights of every man, I am a real Native American, fight for what's right, fight for your life! I feel strong about right and wrong, And I don't take trouble for very long, I got something deep inside of me, and courage is the thing that keeps us free, I am a real Native American, Fight for the rights of every man, I am a real Native American, fight for what's right, fight for your life! Well you hurt my friends, and you hurt my pride, I gotta be a man; I can't let it slide, I am a real Native American, Fight for the rights of every man, I am a real Native American, fight for what's right, fight for your life! I am a real Native American, Fight for the rights of every man, I am a real Native American, fight for what's right, fight for your life!
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11-14-2012, 06:22 PM | #10 |
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See, I'm still going with the United Tribes of the People for USA. Which language would become predominant? What tribe might be politically savvy enough for their language to be the official language of the land? Iroquois? The United Tribes of Iroquois? Bye, bye Miss Iroquois Pie?
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11-15-2012, 07:03 AM | #11 |
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No, I have no more a problem with the Chiefs than I do with the Kings; the Braves is no worse than the Rangers; and the Seminoles and Blackhawks are no more problematic than the Vikings or Celtics. It's one thing to be sensitive to their plight, but it's another to try and pretend that they don't exist, or that they aren't a fundamental part of our nation.
The only ones that I know that cross the line are the Indians mascot and the Redskins name, and they cross waaaaay over it. |
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