re: What would North America be like today had the American Indians been left alone?

Well, assuming the Chinese or Japanese didn't land on the west coast, there'd Be a lot more bison running around I'd guess. Oh, and they'd probably still be inter tribal slavery. And human sacrifice in some places.

It's probably a more interesting question to ask how European history would be different. Napoleon wouldn't have had the Louisiana purchase to sell (or anyone to sell it to),Euopean countries might have put more emphasis on colonies in places like Australia, Africa and India; WWI might have come out different without the US or if not, maybe WWII. Probably a lot of other changes. Invention of things like flight and automobiles may have taken different shapes, etc.

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Yep, and by the 16th century they had yet to domesticate animals nor discovered the usefulness of the wheel, regularly practiced human sacrifice and had an economy based on forced slavery usually by kidnapping. The roads you mention were more akin to footpaths than anything else. Lets stop with the revisionist history. If left to their own devices the natives of North America would be the most backwards and uncivilized people on earth. The slums of Rio would look palatial in comparison.

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At the same time, Europeans were also practicing slavery, and burning heretics at the stake, which looks an awful lot like human sacrifice to me. Most people lived in squalor, and even the nobility stank to high heaven because nobody bathed. No one was particularly civilized by modern standards. Europeans certainly weren't morally superior, and although they had some technological advantages, they conquered North America mostly by accidentally, and sometimes intentionally, introducing fatal diseases to the native population.

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it would be like africa

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Africa was left alone? This is news to me. What history class did you take?

Here come the oblivious nationalists.

You arse would have been at work yesterday! That is of course assuming you have a job! So I tip my hat to the redman who sacrificed so much so that I could enjoy a few days off.

Was at work yesterday, not everyone sucks on the gov. tit like you.

This question is impossible to answer.

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Posted by Jim Rockford on 11/27 at 11:28 pm to cave canem
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Yep, and by the 16th century they had yet to domesticate animals nor discovered the usefulness of the wheel, regularly practiced human sacrifice and had an economy based on forced slavery usually by kidnapping. The roads you mention were more akin to footpaths than anything else. Lets stop with the revisionist history. If left to their own devices the natives of North America would be the most backwards and uncivilized people on earth. The slums of Rio would look palatial in comparison.



At the same time, Europeans were also practicing slavery, and burning heretics at the stake, which looks an awful lot like human sacrifice to me. Most people lived in squalor, and even the nobility stank to high heaven because nobody bathed. No one was particularly civilized by modern standards. Europeans certainly weren't morally superior, and although they had some technological advantages, they conquered North America mostly by accidentally, and sometimes intentionally, introducing fatal diseases to the native population.

but this will upset the "Great White Man" revisionists

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 If left to their own devices the natives of North America would be the most backwards and uncivilized people on earth. The slums of Rio would look palatial in comparison.

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I hope you don't really believe this. What part of looking at the ancient Mayans and Aztecs makes you believe this? They were more advanced half a century ago than many current societies around the world. With another 500 or so years under their belt who knows how advanced they'd be today.

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I hope you don't really believe this. What part of looking at the ancient Mayans and Aztecs makes you believe this? They were more advanced half a century ago than many current societies around the world. With another 500 or so years under their belt who knows how advanced they'd be today.

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Your idiot arse does realize that "half a century" ago was 1964. This alone says you know not of which you speak.