A poster, in another thread, reminded me of a question I've wondered from time to time.
Why were the indigenous americans many thousands of years behind (Stone Age) the rest of the world's people's ??
A poster, in another thread, reminded me of a question I've wondered from time to time.
Why were the indigenous americans many thousands of years behind (Stone Age) the rest of the world's people's ??
It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.
As a guess I would say disconnection from other cultures had something to do with it.
Most advanced cultures became advanced due to the sharing of technology either through trade, warfare or assimilation of some sort.
Captdon (10-10-2017),Green Arrow (10-10-2017),RollingWave (10-18-2017)
I'll just throw this out there, that maybe that's what they preferred, a life less complicated by technology, politics, economics. There have always been those who resisted the encroachment of the state. They had a rich, well-ordered life of hunting, gathering, some agriculture, trade, centered around the family or tribe.
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Kacper (10-10-2017)
"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President
I just can't grasp the isolation theory. There was plenty of warfare and trade between the various cultures. The Mayan, Inca and Aztec expanded their empires via war and assimilation of cultures. Their mathmatics was advanced but no wheel, no metallurgy, short of the soft ores, farming was rudimentary in north america and rather advanced in the south, no large boat/ship building beyond advanced canoes. The north american indigenous people's were barely beyond hunter gathers when the Europeans arrived. Isolationism just doesn't make sense.
It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
The Algonquins also assimilated other tribes, traded with other tribes and went to war with other tribes yet were nowhere near as advanced as the Aztecs.
The political system of the Algonquins would have been considered communistic by today's standards
Last edited by Mister D; 10-10-2017 at 03:57 PM.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist