RE: Climate impact of Europeans killing native Americans
February 1, 2019 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2019 at 11:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
They did keep livestock, but not the sorts of livestock that necessitated deforestation...and the cultures with the most dedicated livestock operations occupied lightly forested regions from the outset.
Dogs, turkeys (and other assorted fowl), guinea pigs, llamas, alpacas, and, ofc, fish.
Pre-columbian ag was massively sophisticated. They actually had a greater variety of cultivars under crop than europe did (alot of the veggies we eat today are native to the americas and were unknown to europe pre-contact)....
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...what they didn't have were plows, cattle and horses.
Dogs, turkeys (and other assorted fowl), guinea pigs, llamas, alpacas, and, ofc, fish.
Pre-columbian ag was massively sophisticated. They actually had a greater variety of cultivars under crop than europe did (alot of the veggies we eat today are native to the americas and were unknown to europe pre-contact)....
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...what they didn't have were plows, cattle and horses.
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