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Old 05-31-2012, 10:53 AM   #46
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Re: Why were native americans/australians so primitive?

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The Aztec and Mayan civilizations were most certainly not more developed than the Nords, and for about the last decade I have been continually baffled, mortified, and pissed off at the extent to which new-age academia reveres pre-colombian cultures while making them out to be some highly-advanced, trend-setting world beaters who were supposedly ahead of their Eurasion and Middle-Eastern contemporaries in almost every aspect and yet somehow failed to survive into the present day in any meaningful sense.
Kinda hard when disease pathogens you have no immunity to because you didn't grow up around pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses get introduced into your population.

No one said they were more advanced than all of Eurasia. But their urban and agricultural achievements were quite impressive. The Aztecs had a city of over 250,000 people, something the Europeans could not say since the days of the Roman Empire. They also knew how to create advanced hydraulic systems and build artificial islands.
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Old 06-05-2012, 01:24 AM   #47
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Re: Why were native americans/australians so primitive?

Europeans were still living in skinned tents while the Chinese had a vast civilization.
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Old 06-10-2012, 02:04 PM   #48
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Re: Why were native americans/australians so primitive?

They weren't.

America has a long history of extremely complex civilisations. They didn't develop in certain areas because they had no need to. When Europeans first landed in (North)America, the technological disparity was noticeable, but hardly dominant. What killed off the Natives wasn't technology, since the technology that would give Europeans an insurmountable edge over the Natives wouldn't exist for a century or so, what killed off the Natives was disease brought by the Europeans.

As for why the Europeans had this technology, that's due to a complex series of factors including but not limited to, geology, biodiversity, geography, and having trade links with Asia and the Middle East that the Americans didn't have access to.

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I will have to disagree. Just because you figure out how to travel long distances in space means you have a full understand the biology of a completely unknown species.
It's very unlikely that any Earth contains any disease that can be communicated to a species from another planet. It's very unlikely that an alien species could infect any of our species with their diseases either.
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