What do you think and know about native americans before

>>64677
The aztecs wouldve conquered them eventually

>>64693
this is what i think too, eventually all the tribes would have been killed or absorbed into the larger tribes till there were like one maybe three left.

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I think Jared Diamond has it right: they were really fucked by having no beasts of burden, and the potential for that doesn't look good.

>>64677
wasn't there something in the north east the Iroquois confederacy couldn't they have managed to build something up?

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>>64677
This book does a good job of explaining how cool they were while simultaneously not trating them with kids gloves. They were as brutal as the rest of us, but also pretty sophisticated.

>>64677
nation of giants desu

>>65194
That confederation was formed as a response to European incursions.

>>64677

>Delaware

>not Lenape

shigs digs

>>64693
Some rebellion would have happened earlier though.

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>>64789
>I think Jared Diamond has it right

This sentence should not ever be used unironically.

It's not like beasts of burden were magically suited to that task before they were used and selectively bred for it. Do you think wild horses and donkeys before domestication were actually better suited for those tasks than llamas and zebras?

>>64677
Tlingit had bitching wooden helmets.

They were beginning to approach a Bronze Age level of civilization before smallpox and the resultant social collapse wiped out the majority of the population on both continents within a few centuries. By the time Europeans got to North America, they were interacting with a post-apocalyptic civilization.