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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Wheelbarrow? Any slightly mechanized machine for textiles, wind mills, archimedean water pumps, etc. No draft animals involved. If they had the wheel, IMO, the initial contact would have been reversed.
38 posted on 12/20/2009 10:58:52 AM PST by allmost
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To: allmost
All of those things come long after you have wheeled carts pulled by draft animals. At least a couple of millenniums later.

No, the only thing that would have given the Native American population a fighting change would have been if they had domecicatable animals. With the lack of them on the American continents the population did not develop the same type of immunities to animal communicated diseases that were common in Europe, Asia and Africa.

It is almost impossible to resist an invader with 90% of your people dead.

44 posted on 12/20/2009 2:32:09 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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