Since time immemorial, they had diversified so greatly in terms of culture that they spoke approximately different languages.
But that all changed when Columbus and the European colonizers arrived. The study attributes the deaths to factors including introduced disease, such as smallpox and measles, as well as warfare and societal collapse. If the Americas had never been colonized by the Europeans, not only would many lives have been saved, but also various cultures and languages.
Through colonization, the Indigenous populations were labeled as Indians, they were enslaved, and they were forced to abandon their own cultures and convert to Christianity. Modern-day California would be the most densely populated region, but the entire continent would be divided into different nations, much like Europe and Asia. Smaller tribes would get swallowed up by larger ones and borders would continue to change throughout history.
But one group that may have emerged as a dominant culture over the others would be the Iroquois. They were known as one of the strongest nations due to their successful agricultural practices, and their ability to invade other nations. Wheat would not have been a staple in the American continents, as this is something introduced from Europe.
And American foods like corn, tomatoes, and potatoes would not have been introduced to the Europeans. The Age of Exploration, beginning in , had many nations looking for new lands to conquer and goods to exploit. So eventually, someone would have stumbled upon it. Nowadays, the only new worlds yet to be discovered are in outer space. Scroll down for the quiz!
There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very quickly.
Take a deep breath. We take 23, breaths a day; trying to get oxygen to our brain and cells. Oxygen is essential to our survival. Would you ever venture into the ocean if you knew this creature could be lurking beneath you? Millions of years ago, the megalodon shark was one of the scariest creatures to ever lurk in our seas. And even before that, the mosasaurs reigned supreme, terrorizing In the time it would take you to order an extra larger everything pizza and have it delivered to your front door you could theoretically jump through that tunnel This is the world million years ago.
No cell phones, electricity or even other humans. Would you be able to survive in this new world? Could you get yourself a pet All over the world, people are treating bodies of water like they are giant garbage dumps.
And experts say that continuing these practices will result in catastrophic What do you say we try to survive on an Earth They suck your blood and spread disease, killing nearly one million people each year.
Are we talking about vampires? But how were they then? Sacrificially religious and canibalistically warmongering? I am not sure we can really tell. Perhaps one in the Andes. They were just too early in their technological development even then for significant development to have occurred in years.
The problem the Indians north of Mexico had is that while a big population center might crop up from time to time and let's clarify that their "major centers" base don population would have been unremarkable in Europe, Asia and wouldn't have been top tier cities in the American and African empires there was really no depth to the culture's population.
You had one large city, and that was it. That made them extremely vulnerable to being dealt a fatal blow by a natural disaster or crop failure. When we look at the tribes the early Europeans encounted, they often did cover a large geographic area but they did so with relatively low and low density populations.
On top of this the towns and cities within a cultural area were often at war with each other. Who knows? The Aztecs and Incas, and their descendent civilizations, might have ended up controlling the Americas. Perhaps the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley might have developed as well, but the technological edge of the Aztecs might have been too great. From a geopolitical standpoint, it seems logical that the two civilizations would have met somewhere in the Isthmus of Panama.
All that being said, I'm pretty certain that European or Asian civilizations would have eventually crossed the Atlanta or Pacific and prevailed anyway, even if they were delayed by another couple of centuries. Because of the intense competition between civilizations on the Eurasian landmass, technological innovation was essential for survival, whereas the Aztecs and Incas faced no such similar motivation.
When you consider the fact that neither civilization had discovered the wheel, what do you think would have happened when the English, Chinese, or French had come ashore in the s with flintlocks? Escort Rider. I'm trying to adhere closely to the conditions stated in the OP, namely that Europeans would continue their scientific and technological progress, but would not colonize the New World. However, not colonizing is not the same as not making contact, as others have implied.
It is logical, indeed almost certain, that Europeans would have continued on their path of progress because they had the momentum in this, starting perhaps with Galileo who was pretty much the father of observation-based empirical science. Once something like that tradition gets started, it is impossible to stop it. Once contact occurred, then certain advances would have been eagerly adopted, as stated in another post, thus profoundly changing the way of life of Native Americans.
Just look at how certain things were quickly embraced world-wide: steam power, radio, television, air transportation. This all belongs to Western technology, but has not remained Western in its application. Most of you have "heard" me say this before, but the OP rather assumes that American Indians were more-or-less a single, monolithic society with common thoughts, beliefs, social structures, religions, etc.
For that matter, we still aren't! This is much like assuming that all Western Europeans form a single culture. As we all know, that isn't true either. If no white people were here; maybe the Japanese and Chinese woulda taken over?
Tho many Navajo DO look Japanese. American Indians are Asian background as it is. Well if the Europeans wont then other powers at the time would such as the Ottoman empire or Chinese empire. They never had guns and due to that they would have no real match due to foreign invasions.
The Industrial Revolution would certainly have, eventually, brought industrialized societies to all parts of the globe, and quickly subdued and dominated the non-industrialized indigenous population. A century after Columbus, nobody had gotten around to North America yet, but eventually, they did. And Africa a century after that, and Australia another century later, but sooner or later, nobody would be spared. Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum.
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