Did they seem smarter than the usual Native American fare?
Development of the Native Americans
Carson Mitchell
Caleb Johnson
Dear and bison are domesticated. Incans even managed to produce lamas and alpacas from a wild species. They had few civilizations because injuns are fucking stupid
Brody Jenkins
I have passing knowledge of a couple American Indian histories.
Regarding the Inuit/Eskimos/etc. They obviously lacked the environment and tools to develop agriculture. Some areas did have bronze and iron in the ground, but they burned whale fat for fires typically (wood being too precious to burn) and it cannot produce flames hot enough to shape or form metals. They remained in the harsh climates due to competition with tribes further South, and also because they were very spiritually connected to the land (when things like the Northern Lights and ice quakes are commonplace, one naturally becomes more spiritually inclined and less focused on comfort and prosperity).
The Mayans were worst affected by climate change, and this set them back centuries in terms of urbanization and population growth. Otherwise, the cities were not self sustaining enough: dietary necessities like salt were being imported to the capital constantly, so isntead of being subject to climate/weather changes in their local area, they found themselves at the mercy of the climates of various regions surrounding the Yucatan. I think I recall reading in Coe's 8th edition of "The Mayans" that many were assimilated into Aztec settlements anyway.
The Incans were by far the most advanced. They had the most clear hierarchy and class structure, with labor being organized on a family by family basis: land was assigned to families, they worked the land in turn, and added food to the stockpiles. Young boys were made into couriers and sent off to walk the winding Andean roads (as the local beasts were not suitable for bearing loads and had bad tempers besides) so that they would see the world before settling into life as a farmer. It was very similar to a socialist monarchy, in my opinion, and features a handful of primitive parallels to state institutions one could expect. "The Last of The Incas" is the best comprehensive history I've read so far. They pretty much didn't advance because their farms were so efficient (with higher crop densities than gardens now) that they didn't need much else once they'd conquered all their neighbors, so they sat around until the Spaniards showed up.
And I've not gotten around to reading about the Aztec or the North American tribes so I can't comment there.
Chase Fisher
Deer and Bison can be TAMED but not domesticated. While the Inca did manage to harvest llamas and alpacas for materials, they weren't much better than sheep for hauling loads. Their more impressive feat, perhaps the most important accomplishment of the western hemisphere in those days, was the creation of maize from wild plant species.
Lucas Edwards
They curse their white ancestors for fucking indioes and indio ancestors for fucking whites. They, like all mulattos, suffer the cognitive dissonance that only a person denied a singular species can suffer.
Adrian Robinson
There it is !
Oh, it makes me feel so good that someone on Holla Forums would know this!
The entire North American continent, from north of the Sonoran desert to the polar ice caps, had around 4 million people.
Subtract Alaska, and the number drops by 1-1.5 million.
Subtract Canada, and the number drops by another 1-1.5 million.
The entire area comprising what is now the contiguous United States had only 1-1.5 million Indians in it.
That's it.
The population density was too low to develop a more advanced, interconnected civilization.
The reason for low densities?
A low-IQ hunter-gatherer lifestyle requires it.
Constant violence and inter-tribal wars reinforces it.
Pre-European diseases, esp. tuberculosis, killed massive numbers of Indians.
Our current best research is that there were 1-1.5 million people spread out across the entire U.S.
The continent was nearly fucking empty, tbh.
And to top it off, Europeans didn't commit violence against the racially-mixed Indians, but rather intermarried with them, like it or not. This means that Americans have developed their own unique genotype over the succeeding 500 years.
No (((guilt))) required.
The region south of the Sonoran desert had ~7 million Indians living in it, with a greater pop density, leading to the more coordinated culture that the Spanish Conquistadors conquered to make Mexico. If you are looking for an atrocious clash of cultures, rather than a welcoming one, look there.
Sebastian Turner
The calories in beer helped with their diet too.
Owen Wright
giants
Samuel Hill
Carter Murphy
to clarify, RH-(Negative) DNA factor means that rhesus (RH) monkey dna isn't in the genome
genetics.thetech.org