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To: allmost

There really weren’t any sufficiently large draft animals in the pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere, except for llamas and alpacas in South America. Those camelids were impratical in a tropical climate such as Central America, or for that matter, in the Amazon basin.

There is a reason why horses aren’t found in southern Africa before the white man settled there: the tropical, equitorial climate is a killer to horses.


24 posted on 12/19/2009 9:39:21 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: SatinDoll

They didn’t use the wheel. It helps human hands as well. They knew about it, but other objectives took priority.


25 posted on 12/19/2009 9:42:17 PM PST by allmost
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