[Fiji Hill]

Even if Europeans had never come to North America, the idyllic aboriginal lifestyle of the Native Americans was doomed.

What's so idyllic about living a lifestyle that is barely at a subsistence level? Being under the constant threat of starvation should the buffalo fail to show up in the tribe's hunting grounds doesn't seem to be a very idyllic way to live.

In her book The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (New York: Day, 1943), Rose Wilder Lane blamed the extreme poverty of the American Indians on the "communist" lifestyle practiced by most of their tribes.

[Kip Russell]

What's so idyllic about living a lifestyle that is barely at a subsistence level? Being under the constant threat of starvation should the buffalo fail to show up in the tribe's hunting grounds doesn't seem to be a very idyllic way to live.

To be fair, the Aztecs had a very sophisticated society by Stone Age standards.

Aside from, y'know, the whole human sacrifice thing.