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Originally Posted by Mutt
Very interesting article, while I knew about the Fertile Crescent I really never really knew why the Middle East became 'the cradle of civilization'. And it answers a question I've asked many times, how could the modern human species that has been around for 200,000 years, remaining hunter gatherers for 190,000 years, have progressed so little?
That article spells it out, the Fertile Crescent was like a garden of Eden,so bountiful that farming evolved and surpluses of food so that people could do other things with their lives besides hunting for food.
Our own native Indians must have been morons, they were still hunter gatherers when the Europeans got here, though they did do some farming as well. They didn't even have THE WHEEL! Of course the reason we're told the Indians were so primitive is that they were at one with Nature, that it was their choice.
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The author of that has by the way answer or at least theory for your native indians too. It doesn't explain everything, but I think it establishes great foundation to approach these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
About indians in generally, the indians in US region and the indians in Middle- and South America were vastly different.