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There were actually horses in the new world, it's just that the natives hunted them all to extinction well before the Europeans arrived. Likewise with most othe
by dmix 4y ago
There were actually horses in the new world, it's just that the natives hunted them all to extinction well before the Europeans arrived. Likewise with most other "mega fuana" in North America. There's also theories that climate changes played a role in addition to over exploitation.
- School-Cotton 4y agoTrue, but to be clear, they had gone extinct thousands of years before the Spanish brought them back, so the natives in the early 16th century had no way of knowing about them.