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>They were much more measured and careful than the idiots who arrived after the 1500s I doubt it. There just weren't nearly as many of them.
by fathompinball 5y ago
>They were much more measured and careful than the idiots who arrived after the 1500s
I doubt it. There just weren't nearly as many of them.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThey also had a few thousand years of practice figuring out what works in the local environment. Human nature is one of the few things that seems to be consistent throughout all of history across all civilizations. The natives probably had just as many idiots as every other civilization.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> The natives probably had just as many idiots as every other civilization. If one person can cause a tragedy by mistake, you have a systematic failure, not a failure of the individual. A sign of a good system is that the occasional fool doesn't end up with the horizon burning.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThe estimates of the human population of north America in 1491 (the year before Columbus arrived in the Caribbean) are in the range of 7-18 million.