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Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms
by ErigmolCt 2mo ago
Europeans often failed to recognize Indigenous land management because it did not resemble European cities or farms
- suddenlybananas 2mo agoThere's accounts of Europeans encountering cities in the Amazon, people didn't take them seriously since they disappeared in the intervening time.
- jeltz 2mo agoNo, what they failed to recognize was indigenous land management that had been abandoned for many decades. In remote areas smallpox moved quite far ahead of European settlers.