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Take a look at "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1

Take a look at "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann: https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1/142-2024016-7487835?psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu... Mann attempts to reconstruct what the Americas were like before European contact. More importantly, he makes a case that some American Indians had a higher standard of living than Europeans. More importantly, everything really was mostly "good, peaceful and stable ... until the colonizers" showed up. The disrupting factor were the pandemics that happened; not that one culture was superior than the other.

IAmBroom 1y ago
> More importantly, everything really was mostly "good, peaceful and stable ... until the colonizers" showed up. The disrupting factor were the pandemics that happened; not that one culture was superior than the other. The peaceful, noble savage myth. Native Americans engaged in wars, enslavement, and horrific torture - as did the Europeans. The League of Five Nations was noted for a stable (and therefore largely peaceful) inter-tribe arrangement, but it was a new and exceptional development, just prior to the coincidental arrival of Europeans.
- gwbas1c 1y ago
  Are you quoting me out of context to prove a point? I'm pointing out that this statement is straight up racist, and disproven by historical record: > Why was everything always good, peaceful and stable in "indigenous environments" until "the colonizers " show up? I find it hard to believe.