But it’s not A stone age culture. It’s a whole bunch of tribes sometimes trading with each other. In a land of plenty. The general theory for why Indians didn’t get past the stone age because they didn’t need to. Need is a big driver for technology, if you’re in an area where farming and hunting are easy you lack need.
Given the area Cleopatra might not have been black but she probably wasn’t white either. She was probably either mid-eastern brown or black. And we know slaves were thrown overboard, how many who knows, as for sharks well we know that human flesh is actually not fatty enough to be nutritious for sharks so no they probably aren’t hanging out there waiting for more people to get thrown overboard.
Indians were locked in the stone age. I don’t care why, any more than I care why the Australian aborigines were. It’s simply a fact, which, if actually understood, makes the article transparently absurd. Indians were always living on the edge of starvation. There were never more that one million or so Pre-Columbianindians living north of the Rio Grande.
Cleopatra was a Ptolemy. She was ethnically a Greek descended from the family of one of Alexander’s generals.
AND, you are puzzling through the “sharks” claim? Doesn’t anyone here have a memory? Congressman Major Owens from New York said that “200 million slaves were lost [during the slave trade years] being transported from Africa, and that sharks today still swim that route” in a special orders speech in the House about 11 years ago. The claim is stupid on its face, and many writers pointed out at the time how absurd the statement was.
Cleopatra was of Greek ancestry, a heritage of Alexander’s conquest. She was, however, thought to be the first of her dynasty to learn the Eqyptian language.