(May 1, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:What is the point of pointing out that the Norse conducted agriculture better than Inuit? Agriculture as the Norse did it was hopeless, Inuit way of life meant survival. In the context, Inuit technology and way of life was infinitely superior. Yet the Norse leaned nothing and died out.
How many colonizing powers actually adapt to the ways of the indigenous? European colonizers couldn't wait to exterminate the indians.
The leading edge of later European colonization wave did trade with and adapt a substantial number of Indian crops and agricultural practices. These were instrument to initial success of later European colonial successes. That they didn’t adopt more of Indian practices can be chilled up to the fact that their original accustomed practices were as demonstrably inadequate as the Norse agriculture had been to meet the minimum requirements of survival.
The key difference between the Norse in Greenland and later Europeans is later Europeans didn’t fail to adopt Indian practices when their survival depended on it.
