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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Yeah, I think Europeans won that war before the Natives ever even saw them. Lucky break if you're European, not so lucky if you're Native. I still find it interesting that disease only went one way. Why did North America not have any native diseases that traveled back to Europe?
I also think it's interesting that our understanding of archaeology is only based on what survives. So I tend to think that ancient civilizations built everything out of stone, but 99 percent of stuff might have been wood or mammoth pelt or something that decayed quickly. Maybe there was an entire advanced civilization of sentient giant shrimp in the past and we know nothing about them because they left no bones and built everything out of coral.
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Yeah that's what happened to the Cahokia mound builders. It took centuries to recognize that was once a pretty advanced civilization with large pyramids made of earth. Costa Rica had an ancient civilization that built all their grand structures out of wood - all that remains is the stone foundations.