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11-14-2012, 04:53 PM | #1 |
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So bye, bye Miss Native American Pie, rode my pony to the levy but the levy was dry
Good ol braves, drinkin' firewater and shine Singing "just another day in the tribe. Just another day in the tribe."
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11-14-2012, 04:54 PM | #2 | |
GO CHIEFS!!!!!!
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11-14-2012, 06:31 PM | #3 | |
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Back again, again.
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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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