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Originally Posted by powerclown
The American Indian had access to rifles, and fought with just as much if not more ferocity and cunning than white men. They also, like the Africans, had superior knowledge of the local environment. Yet both lost to an outside force and I like to understand the reasons why.
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Pig mentioned Guns, Germs and Steel and that's a good place to start. I don't hold with everything Diamond says, but he is right in that Europeans and Asians such as the Chinese had some significant advantages in terms of the raw materials, agricultural possibilities, domesticatable herd animals and simple geography over the natives of the Americas and Australia that allowed them to develop certain technologies and societal advantages.