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- It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest…
- Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,…
- Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
- Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas…
- Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic…
- The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences…
- It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received…
- Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen…
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we… — Sitting Bull
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter… — Daniel Boone
- I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans -… — Beau Bridges
- I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. — Tori Amos
- The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of… — Nikola Tesla
- America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large… — Paula Gunn Allen