Timeline for How would the indigenous peoples of North America have developed in the absense of the Europeans?
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 15:51 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | 1006a | Ah, I see. Probably would need a greater seafaring tradition, then, to transport goods in large quantity past the Darién Gap. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | Davislor | Yes, exactly. If the Americas had not been trading with the Old World, they could still have traded more with each other. North America could then have grown corn and potatoes, and did grow many of those other plants. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 23:01 | comment | added | 1006a | Potatoes are indigenous to the Andes (in South America). A huge proportion of the world's domesticated crops were domesticated in the New World and then exported to the Old, not the other way around. In addition to potatoes, this includes such staples as tomatoes, corn/maize, peanuts, blueberries, cranberries, pumpkin/squash, and cocoa/chocolate. | |
| Feb 12, 2018 at 21:01 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2018 at 20:52 | history | edited | Davislor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2018 at 20:46 | history | answered | Davislor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |