alt Hacker NewsThe lack of animals to domesticate meant fewer zoonotic diseases in Native American populations, so they were ill equipped when those diseases appeared.
IIRC, there was a massive plague in North America a decade or so before Columbus arrived.
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AuryGlenz • today at 7:10 AM
I never understand the “lack of animals to domesticate” angle. They did domesticate animals, such as the llama and alpaca.
More could have been domesticated and presumably would have been if the had more time to advance. It’s a shame giant sloths were killed off…
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So a lack of animal husbandry is the same as lower technology and a lack of farming.